punk

[Punk]

A punk is a young troublemaker. If your elderly neighbor thinks of you as a young punk, he either thinks all kids are bad or you did something that really disturbed him.

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Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

Noun
rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

Noun
an aggressive and violent young criminal

Noun
a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture

Noun
material for starting a fire

Noun
substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)

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Adjective S.
of very poor quality


n.
Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

n.
A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

n.
An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

n.
A prostitute; a strumpet.


Punk

Punk , n. [Cf. Spunk.] 1. Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood. 2. A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric. 3. An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk. 4. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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Usage Examples

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

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Other Usage Examples

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

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