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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
Jello Biafra

Meaning of "punk" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUNK

Via Polari from Spanish pu( n) ta prostitute, pu( n) to male prostitute.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUNK

punk  [pʌŋk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Punk can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUNK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Punk

Punk or punks may refer to: ▪ Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres ▪ Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock ▪ P.U.N.K.S., a 1999 movie about a group of bullied teens who find a suit created by a scientist ▪ Punks, a 2001 film centered around a group of LGBT African American friends ▪ Punk, a smoldering stick used for lighting firework fuse ▪ Punk, a 1970s United States punk music magazine ▪ CM Punk, American retired professional wrestler ▪ The Encyclopedia of Punk, a 2006 reference work by Brian Cogan ▪ Punk, a colloquialism for the typha species ▪ "Punk", a song from the 2001 Gorillaz self-titled debut album ▪ "Punk", a song from the 2003 Ferry Corsten album Right of Way...

Definition of punk in the English dictionary

The first definition of punk in the dictionary is a youth movement of the late 1970s, characterized by anti-Establishment slogans and outrageous clothes and hairstyles. Other definition of punk is an adherent of punk. Punk is also an inferior, rotten, or worthless person or thing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUNK


bunk
bʌŋk
chipmunk
ˈtʃɪpˌmʌŋk
chunk
tʃʌŋk
cyberpunk
ˈsaɪbəˌpʌŋk
debunk
diːˈbʌŋk
drunk
drʌŋk
dunk
dʌŋk
funk
fʌŋk
gunk
ɡʌŋk
hunk
hʌŋk
junk
dʒʌŋk
kerplunk
kəˈplʌŋk
monk
mʌŋk
podunk
ˈpəʊdʌŋk
shrunk
ʃrʌŋk
skunk
skʌŋk
slam-dunk
ˌslæmˈdʌŋk
spunk
spʌŋk
sunk
sʌŋk
trunk
trʌŋk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUNK

punitive
punitive damages
punitive taxation
punitively
punitiveness
punitory
Punjab
Punjab States
Punjabi
punji
punk rock
punk rocker
punka
punkah
punker
punkey
punkish
punky
punned
punner

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUNK

blue funk
blunk
clunk
countersunk
crunk
electro-funk
flunk
half-drunk
lunk
plunk
postpunk
preshrunk
punch-drunk
slam dunk
slunk
space junk
stunk
thunk
tree trunk
wardrobe trunk

Synonyms and antonyms of punk in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PUNK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «punk» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of punk

Translation of «punk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUNK

Find out the translation of punk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of punk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «punk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

朋克摇滚乐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

punk
570 millions of speakers

English

punk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुंडा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بَنْك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

панк-рок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

punk
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাজে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

punk
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Punk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blödmann
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

チンピラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보잘것없는 사람
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Punk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thể loại punk rock
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பங்க்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पंक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

punk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

punk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmieć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

панк
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

punk
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλήτης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

punk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drittsekk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of punk

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNK»

The term «punk» is very widely used and occupies the 5.961 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «punk» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «punk» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about punk

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10 QUOTES WITH «PUNK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word punk.
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Jeff Ament
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.
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Jeff Ament
I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
3
Eric Andre
I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
4
Steve Aoki
I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.
5
Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
7
Jello Biafra
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
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Jello Biafra
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
9
Nina Blackwood
Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.
10
Benjamin Booker
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNK»

Discover the use of punk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
In Pretty in Punk, Lauraine Leblanc examines what happens when girls ignore these cultural messages, parody ideas of beauty, and refuse to play the games of teenage femininity.
Lauraine Leblanc, 1999
2
Punk
Photo essay and history of punk music with interviews.
Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, 2005
3
Punk: Music, Fashion, Attitude!
This book discusses the rise of punk as musical genre and as a culture and how its changed to become what it is today.
Charlotte Guillain, 2011
4
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.
Stephen Duncombe, Maxwell Tremblay, 2011
5
Pretty in Punk: 25 Punk, Rock, and Goth Knitting Projects
More mittens? We're not gonna take it! And neither should you! Pretty in Punk salutes counterculture fashion with 25 entirely original designs inspired by fashion icons Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, and punk legends.
Alyce Benevides, Jaqueline Milles, 2013
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Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender
Malott and Pe a's study looks at trends in the ideas, values, and beliefs transmitted through punk's
Curry Malott, Milagros Peña, 2004
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Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
Updated 2009 edition of this evergreen punk-rock classic!
Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins, 2009
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Punk; A Directory of Modern Subversive Culture
In most ways it has morphed and evolved into something unrecognisable as its former self but the sprit lives on. This book attempts express the very nature of modern punk by looking at those closest to it.
James Bradshaw, 2007
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New Punk Cinema
The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream.New Punk Cinemais ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as ...
Nicholas Rombes, 2005
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Artists, reporters, musicians, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of drugs, sex, power struggles, and other manifestations of the movement. Reprint.
Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term punk is used in the context of the following news items.
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Punk Is Dead: Fans Slam Sex Pistols Credit Cards
Virgin Money has launched a line of credit cards featuring two of the punk band's iconic record covers. The images will be taken from the 1976 single "Anarchy in ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
2
No, you're not being 'Punk'd.' The show is coming back!
Original “Punk'd” producers Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher plotting with guest-host Justin Bieber . MUAH-HA-HA-HA! (Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY). «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
3
'Rowdy' Roddy Piper: CM Punk leaving millions of WWE dollars for …
Now, CM Punk hopes to follow in the footsteps of Lesnar, as he too, left a career in WWE behind to try his hand at one-on-one combat inside the Octagon. «MMAmania.com, Apr 15»
4
Finland punk band PKN set for Eurovision
A punk band made up of musicians with learning disabilities is to represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest. The quartet, named PKN, was chosen by ... «BBC News, Mar 15»
5
Interviewer Tells CM Punk 'You Are Not A UFC Fighter,' Heated …
CM Punk appeared on TSN's Off The Record with Michael Landsberg Thursday to talk about his future with the UFC. In the 15-minute interview, Landsberg not ... «The Inquisitr, Dec 14»
6
Dana White's signing of CM Punk to UFC is a no-brainer
Today Punk -- aka Philip Jack Brooks -- is the newest member of the UFC and the response has been mixed. Some MMA purists are seemingly on the verge of ... «FOXSports.com, Dec 14»
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C.M. Punk rips WWE again, rejects Vince McMahon's apology
Last week, Punk explained, in great detail, why he left the WWE, citing poor health and medical attention as one of the main reasons. Punk also claimed that the ... «FOXSports.com, Dec 14»
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CM Punk slams WWE's health and wellness policy, says he was …
For those few who are still holding out hope that CM Punk will return to WWE, you might want to grab a box of tissues. They are never, ever, ever, getting back ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
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Punk rock icon Tommy Ramone dies
People we lost in 2014 – Paul Mazursky, a five-time Oscar nominee who directed and wrote such films as "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," "An Unmarried Woman" ... «CNN, Jul 14»
10
Hulk Hogan to CM Punk -- Please Come Back to the WWE!
030914_hulk_hogan_launch_v2 Count Hulk Hogan among the legion of WWE fans who hope CM Punk makes a wrestling comeback in the near future. «TMZ.com, Mar 14»

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