Punk

/ˈpʌŋk/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:
2. (countable, US, slang) A worthless person, particularly:
3. (uncountable) A group of associated musical, artistic and social movements emerging out of the counterculture in the 1970s:
4. (countable) A follower of any of these movements, including:
5. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularly
6. Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
7. (slang) To pimp.
8. (slang, transitive) To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).

Example Sentences

This fellow was just a punk... a nobody.

You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing, and chains.

BrewDog, the craft beer company that prides itself on a “punk” ethos, has been accused of acting like “just another multinational corporate machine” after forcing a family-run pub to change its name or face legal action.

Ricky punked his new cell-mates.

"Hell, Haggerty, with that caved-in chest you got, and with your guts pickled in alcohol, and a leg and a half in the grave, the Navy wouldn't even take you for punkin', Barney sourly said.

If you start to stare at men's asses, to try & punk them in their moments with God; you are an enemy of God! Anyone looking upon a man as though a woman is in danger of judgement! -<><

I got expelled when I punked the principal.

“We were laughing because it was like, ‘Do you think we’re being punked?’” said Leigh Wade, an OB-GYN who was there with her husband, Richard Iuorio, an emergency room doctor who’d waited for a reservation since February.

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Word Forms

• punks
• punx
• punker
• punkest
• punking
• punked

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