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UK
/pˈʌŋks/
]
[ US /ˈpəŋks/ ]
[ US /ˈpəŋks/ ]
NOUN
- a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes)
How To Use punks In A Sentence
- The kings of the heartogram didn't fail to impress, with a diverse crowd gathered, including everyone from young punks to soccer moms and even a haggard old bat dancing around in lingerie.
- Don, you and the rest of your little buddies are the same worthless rat punks now that you were as 12-year-olds.
- In some of her designs for trousers, there was the additional and creative element of safety pins, a unique accessory for punks, a reason she won kudos that night.
- It's been a long time since such a collection of punks, misfits and miscreants gathered together to worship such an influential act.
- A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
- She called her attackers "snot-nosed little punks who deserve a tuneup. Undefined
- At the same time he paints a sad picture of the dreamland inhabited by his drunks, druggies and small-time punks.
- From my experiences, punks & skins generally get along OK.
- Beer-swilling punks drag race through the river.
- When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks, deadheads, druggies, geeks, and all the rest.
