punk
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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).
Inflected forms:
form: punker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: punkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: punks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: punking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: punked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: punked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Worthless, contemptible, particularly
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Babbitt boomed on: "Pretty punk service the Company giving us on these car-lines. Nonsense to only run the Portland Road cars once every seven minutes. Fellow gets mighty cold on a winter morning, waiting on a street corner with the wind nipping at his ankles."
gloss: Worthless, contemptible, particularly
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
gloss: Worthless, contemptible, particularly
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: ... Donald Trump is also a coward. For all of his tough talk and bluster, the president of the United States is a punk ass bitch.
gloss: Worthless, contemptible, particularly
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: With the subtleties of dressing ran other complex worries. "I feel kind of punk this morning," he said. "I think I had too much dinner last evening. You oughtn't to serve those heavy banana fritters."
gloss: Worthless, contemptible, particularly
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
gloss: Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
pos: adj
examples: You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing, and chains.
BrewDog, the craft beer company that prides itself on a “punk” ethos, has been accused of acting like “just another multinational corporate machine” after forcing a family-run pub to change its name or face legal action.
gloss: To pimp.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
"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.
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! -<><
gloss: To prank.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I got expelled when I punked the principal.
“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.
gloss: To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
pos: verb
tags: especially
examples: Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.
gloss: To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: Suzy, a pump young woman with sparkling brown eyes and punked hair tucked behind her ears, said blankly, "What?"
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.”
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.
Derived words: Afropunk
anarcho-punk
antipunk
art punk
atompunk
bindle punk
biopunk
Celtic punk
clockpunk
country punk
cowpunk
crust punk
cyberpunk
cypherpunk
deathpunk
dieselpunk
edupunk
egg punk
electropunk
folk-punk
folk punk
garage-punk
garage punk
genderpunk
glam punk
gutter punk
hardcore punk
hinkypunk
horror punk
hunky punk
industrial punk
mannerpunk
neopunk
pickled punk
pop punk
pop-punk
positive punk
post-punk
postpunk
post-punk revival
prepunk
protopunk
punkabilly
punkadelic
punk-ass
punk-blues
punkdom
punked
punker
punkette
punk house
punkify
punkily
punking
punkish
punkitude
punk jazz
punk-jazz
punk-like
punklike
punkling
punk music
punk out
punk pop
punk rock
punk rocker
punks out
punkster
punkwear
punky
punk zine
punkzine
sailpunk
sandalpunk
seapunk
ska-punk
ska punk
skate punk
skatepunk
skunk
splatterpunk
steampunk
surfpunk
surf punk
synthpunk
technopunk
unpunk
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