punk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who engages in sexual intercourse

   My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.

2. 2
   noun

   A worthless person, particularly

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

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A follower of any of these movements, including:

   My girlfriend is a punk and she plays the drums.

5. 5
   adj

   Worthless, contemptible, particularly

   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."

6. 6
   adj

   Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.

   You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing, and chains.

7. 7
   verb

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

   Ricky punked his new cell-mates.

8. 8
   verb

   To prank.

   I got expelled when I punked the principal.

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).