punk

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Related topics: Music, Youth, Crime

punk /pʌŋk/ noun

1. [uncountableU] (also punk rock)APM a type of loud music popular in the late 1970s and 1980s 朋克摇滚乐〔一种20世纪70年代末期和80年代流行的音乐〕

2 [countableC] (also punk rocker)SSY someone who likes punk music and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair 朋克摇滚乐迷；追随朋克风格者〔如穿褴褛衣衫、佩戴金属链子、将头发染成鲜艳的颜色等〕

punk hairstyles

朋克发式

3. [countableC] American EnglishAmE informalSCC a young man who fights and breaks the law 小流氓，阿飞

4. [uncountableU] American EnglishAmESUBSTANCE a substance that burns without a flame that is used to light fireworks etc 〔用于点烟火的〕火绒

Examples from the Corpus

punk• Think of them as a punk Dire Straits.• Sid Vicious, the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy.• Guys like that, cheap punks, are easy enough to handle when you feel up to it.• A couple of punks on the far side, also waiting to cross, were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing.• Which is fine -- we enjoy a good debate in print, sensationalist punks that we are.• Take punk, it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates.• I'd like to find the punk who broke off my car antenna.• All these punks are the same.

Origin punk

1. (1900-2000) Perhaps from punk “prostitute” ((16-20 centuries)).

2. (1600-1700) Perhaps from spunk “material for lighting fires”; → SPUNK

punk noun

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