punknoun
uk/pʌŋk/us/pʌŋk/punk noun (CULTURE)
[ U ] a culture popular among young people, especially in the late 1970s, involving opposition to authority expressed through shocking behaviour, clothes, and hair, and fast, loud music
[ C ] also punk rocker a person who wears punk clothes and likes punk music
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teen
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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punk noun (CRIMINAL)
[ C ] mainly US slang a young man who fights and is involved in criminal activities:
Listen to me, you little punk - you do that again and I'm gonna break your neck.
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Miscellaneous criminals
- arson
- bigamy
- black hat
- black market
- blackmail
- fence
- fire starter
- fire-raising
- fly-posting
- forger
- pickpocket
- pirate
- plagiarize
- plunder
- poacher
- straw man
- suicide bomber
- swindle
- terrorist
- thief
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punkadjective [ before noun ]
uk/pʌŋk/us/pʌŋk/of or relating to punk or punk rockers:
a punk band
a punk hairstyle
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teen
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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punkverb [ T ]
uk/pʌŋk//pʌŋk/US informalpunk verb [ T ] (TRICK)
to trick or make fun of someone:
Then they realized they'd been punked.
punk verb [ T ] (DEFEAT)
(especially in sports) to defeat someone very easily:
The Golden State Warriors punked the LA Clippers 115-94.