punk

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who engages in sexual intercourse

   • My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
   • […] And made them fight, like mad or drunk, / For Dame Religion, as for punk...
2. 2

   A worthless person, particularly

   • This fellow was just a punk... a nobody.
3. 3

   A worthless person

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   1. 4

      A group of associated musical, artistic and social movements emerging out of the…

      A group of associated musical, artistic and social movements emerging out of the counterculture in the 1970s:

      • Who else... would have the nerve to actually begin a song with the line ‘Whatchew gonna do, mama, now that the roast beef's gone...?’ Man, that is true punk; that is so fucked up it's got class up the ass.
   2. 5

      A follower of any of these movements, including

      A follower of any of these movements, including:

      • My girlfriend is a punk and she plays the drums.
      • But I still felt a fraud. I was like all those people who suddenly shaved their heads and said they'd always been punks, they'd been punks before punk was even thought of […]
   3. 6

      Worthless, contemptible, particularly

   4. 7

      Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.

      • 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.
   5. 8

      To pimp.

   6. 9

      To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).

      • 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! -<><
   7. 10

      To prank.

      • 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.
   8. 11

      To give up or concede

      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.
   9. 12

      To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.

      • Suzy, a pump young woman with sparkling brown eyes and punked hair tucked behind her ears, said blankly, "What?"
      • 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.
   10. 13

       Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood,…

       Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.

       • As the East-Indians use Moxa, so these burn with Punk, which is the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak.
       • If they attack a house that is pretty well manned, they [Indians in Pennsylvania] creep behind some fence, or hedge, or tree, and shoot red-hot iron slugs, or punk, into the roof, and fire the house […]
       • 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; ...
   11. 14

       A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick…

       A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.

       • On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk."
       • 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.
       • He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM!

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