Meaning of Punk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
   uncountable
2. One who engages in sexual intercourse
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. A female prostitute.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
   countable
5. A boy or younger man who engages in sexual intercourse by an older man as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
   US, countable, uncountable
7. A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
   US, countable, slang, uncountable
8. A male homosexual.
   US, countable, derogatory, uncountable
9. A man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
   US, countable, slang, uncountable
10. A worthless person, particularly
    US, countable, slang
11. A worthless person
    US, countable, humorous, rare, slang, uncountable
12. Any person, especially a male comrade.
    US, countable, humorous, rare, slang, uncountable
13. A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
    US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
14. A weak, timid person.
    US, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
15. Synonym of amateur.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
16. A young, untrained animal or worker.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
17. A group of associated musical, artistic and social movements emerging out of the counterculture in the 1970s:
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
18. Ellipsis of punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums and shocking or political lyrics.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
19. The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather, metal studs and pins, distressed clothing and confrontational slogans.
    countable, uncountable
20. A nonconformist social movement originally associated with punk rock and its fans, combining anarchism and radicalism, usually (but not necessarily) left-wing.
    countable, uncountable
21. Any of the -punk genres, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
    countable, in-compounds, uncountable, usually
22. A follower of any of these movements, including:
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
23. Ellipsis of punk rocker; a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
24. A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
    countable, uncountable
25. A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing.
    countable, uncountable
26. A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
    countable, in-compounds, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.”

“[…] And made them fight, like mad or drunk, / For Dame Religion, as for punk...”

“Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely.”

“However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.”

“The Beaus... At night make a Punk of him that's first drunk.”

“They'd pick up youngsters as, well—as their playthings. These kids were called punks.”

“A punk, if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.”

“If he is small and weak, he may decide to become a ‘punk’ and allow himself to be raped by the inmate most likely to protect him.”

“Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk.”

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

“He said the prisoner called them ‘punk’... He admitted that he shouted ‘punk’ to them.”

“There was nothing so special about the gang, punks are punks.”

“I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

“Do you think a little thing like a scratch would bother me? I'm no punk.”

“Taking him home she hemmed him up soon as they stepped in the door. Now Tony was a bad dude in the streets but when it came to his mama, he was a punk. A few cuss words on her part had him spilling everything.”

“Who else... would have the nerve to actually begin a song with the line ‘Whatchew gonna do, mama, now that the roast beef's gone...?’ Man, that is true punk; that is so fucked up it's got class up the ass.”

“Thus, punk girls combined elements of female dress (bodysuits, skirts) with punk accessories (bullet belt, emocore shirt) to create a distinctly female punk look that's "as girly" as they get.”

“Dame Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer and businesswoman. Largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new-wave fashions into the mainstream, she epitomises haute couture of the modern era.”

“This emphasis on politics in the personal sphere might be a difference between punk now and punk fifteen years ago.”

“Despite this, Podemos's beginnings are still illuminating to understand punk's scope of influence adequately.”

“Some of these genres produce unique and intriguing subculture groups, usually referred to as types of "punks": cyberpunk, teslapunk, atompunk, biopunk, etc.”

“Punk stories look at the current dominant socioeconomic paradigm and don't like what they see. They look at the newest gadget or algorithm and see how it can be misused and abused.”

“My girlfriend is a punk and she plays the drums.”

“But I still felt a fraud. I was like all those people who suddenly shaved their heads and said they'd always been punks, they'd been punks before punk was even thought of […]”

“In the daily praxis of punk, vegetarianism and veganism are strategies through which many punks combat corporate capitalism, patriarchy, and environmental collapse.”

“As the East-Indians use Moxa, so these burn with Punk, which is the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak.”

“If they attack a house that is pretty well manned, they [Indians in Pennsylvania] creep behind some fence, or hedge, or tree, and shoot red-hot iron slugs, or punk, into the roof, and fire the house […]”

“On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of punk struck from his flint and steel; ...”

“The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or punk and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.”

“He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.”

“On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk."”

“Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a punk from the dying campfire.”

“He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM!”

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