Punk

Noun

 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * , V.i.
 * My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
 * 1) * 1663: Samuel Butler, Hudibras.
 * And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk.
 * 1)   The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship; a catamite.
 * Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A male used for sex by larger or stronger inmates.
 * 2) * 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 15:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
 * 2)  The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
 * 3)  A person subscribing to the movement, a punk rocker.
 * 4)  A worthless person.
 * 5) * 1971, Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, Dirty Harry
 * I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. 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 a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, punk?
 * 1)  A juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker.
 * 2)  A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
 * 3) * 1907, Jack London, The Road,
 * On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk."
 * 1) * 1994, Ashland Price, Viking Tempest, p353
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2004, Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place, p221
 * He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM!
 * 1)  Various kinds of material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dry decayed wood or touchwood.
 * 2) * 1899, H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, p271
 * 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; ...
 * 1) * 1922, Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma, p61
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2001, William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man, p116
 * He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.

Adjective

 * Of, or resembling the punk subculture
 * ''You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.

Verb

 * 1) (17th century) To pimp.
 * Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.
 * 1) To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
 * Tony punked all his new cell-mates.
 * 1) To prank.
 * I got expelled when I punked the principal.
 * 1) To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
 * Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked-out at the last minute.

Synonyms

 * prostitute
 * catamite
 * pussy

Derived terms

 * cyberpunk
 * post-punk
 * protopunk
 * punk music
 * punk rock
 * punkabilly
 * punker


 * punkette
 * punkish
 * punkling
 * punkster
 * punky
 * ska punk

Thesaurus
German tinder, JD, Mickey Mouse, a nobody, a nothing, amadou, amiss, auntie, awful, bad, balderdash, baloney, barbarian, barfy, base, bi-guy, bisexual, bosh, brat, bull dyke, bum, bunk, bunkum, butch, catamite, cheap, cheesy, chicken, cipher, claptrap, coarse, common, common man, crappy, creepy, crummy, delinquent, dirty, dissatisfactory, dummy, dyke, elf, enfant terrible, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, figurehead, flit, fourth-class, fricatrice, fruit, gamin, godawful, goon, goshawful, grim, gunsel, had, hairy, hogwash, holy terror, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hoodlum, hooligan, hot, icky, imp, inferior, insignificancy, invert, irregular, jackstraw, jerkwater, juvenile delinquent, lesbian, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, little monkey, lousy, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, man of straw, mean, measly, mediocrity, minx, mug, nance, nebbish, niggling, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, one-horse, paltry, pansy, pathic, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pip-squeak, poky, poor, puck, punk kid, puny, putrid, pyrotechnic sponge, queen, queer, rotten, ruffian, runt, sapphist, scrub, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shitty, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, small-beer, small-time, spoiled brat, spunk, squirt, squit, stinking, stinky, tacky, third-class, third-rate, thug, tinder, tinder fungus, tinderbox, tinhorn, tinny, touchwood, tough, tribade, two-bit, two-by-four, unimportant, unsatisfactory, up, urchin, vandal, vomity, whiffet, whippersnapper, worthless, wrong, yahoo, yecchy

Etymology
Senses 9 and 10 from punkw: 'dust'. Other senses derived by extension from rotten wood dust as 'something rotten, worthless, rubbish' (1869) and figuratively for a worthless person, a young hoodlum, first recorded in 1908. The term punk rock dates from 1971.

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Noun

 * 1) punk

Adjective

 * 1) punk

Etymology
From punk.

Noun

 * 1) punk music

Alternative forms

 * pønk