punk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: punks
form: punking
form: punked
form: punked
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from punk (“rotten wood dust used as tinder”), attested since 1678, to anything worthless (attested since 1869) and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk (“prank”, verb) was popularized by the American television show Punk'd (2003).
Senses: synonyms: word: hustle
word: prostitute
word: dog out
word: hustle
word: mack
word: pander
word: pimp
word: pimp out
word: ponce
word: prostitute
word: punk
word: whore
word: whore out
glosses: To pimp.
examples: text: Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
text: "Hell, Haggerty, with that caved-in chest you got, and with your guts pickled in alcohol, and a leg and a half in the grave, the Navy wouldn't even take you for punkin', Barney sourly said.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 19, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
text: If you start to stare at men's asses, to try & punk them in their moments with God; you are an enemy of God! Anyone looking upon a man as though a woman is in danger of judgement! -<><
ref: 2022 April 30, @GisUsIsReal, Twitter:
glosses: To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
examples: text: I got expelled when I punked the principal.
text: “We were laughing because it was like, ‘Do you think we’re being punked?’” said Leigh Wade, an OB-GYN who was there with her husband, Richard Iuorio, an emergency room doctor who’d waited for a reservation since February.
ref: 2023 September 25, Becky Hughes, quoting Leigh Wade, “New York’s Hottest Steakhouse Was a Fake, Until Saturday Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To prank.
examples: text: Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.
glosses: To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
raw_tags: with "out"
examples: text: Suzy, a pump young woman with sparkling brown eyes and punked hair tucked behind her ears, said blankly, "What?"
ref: 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Like the Apartments, the supports hadn't written many songs of their own. They ran on that old standby, “fun,” in the form of “punked up” versions of pop songs like “It's my Party,” alongside obscure new wave/punk covers such as Lene Lovich's “Cuckoo Clock.”
ref: 2011, David Nichols, The Go-Betweens, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Their raucous take on the beloved, iconic Israeli folk song allegedly drew the ire of the songwriter, Naomi Shemer, and inspired Yidcore to punk up Jewish culture in myriad ways over the course of the next decade.
ref: 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
raw_tags: with "out" or "up"
Derived terms: Afropunk
anarcho-punk
antipunk
art punk
atompunk
bindle punk
biopunk
Celtic punk
clockpunk
country punk
cowpunk
crust punk
cyberpunk
cypherpunk
deathpunk
dieselpunk
edupunk
electropunk
folk-punk
folk punk
garage-punk
garage punk
genderpunk
glam punk
hardcore punk
hinkypunk
horror punk
hunky punk
industrial punk
mannerpunk
neopunk
pickled punk
pop-punk
pop punk
positive punk
postpunk
post-punk
post-punk revival
prepunk
protopunk
punkabilly
punkadelic
punk-ass
punk-blues
punkdom
punked
punker
punkette
punkily
punking
punkish
punkitude
punk jazz
punk-jazz
punk-like
punklike
punkling
punk music
punk out
punk rock
punk rocker
punks out
punkster
punky
punkzine
punk zine
sailpunk
sandalpunk
seapunk
ska punk
ska-punk
skatepunk
skate punk
splatterpunk
steampunk
surf punk
surfpunk
synthpunk
technopunk
unpunk