Topic: YOUTH
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Sense: 1-3
| Date: | 1900-2000 |
| Origin: | Perhaps from punk 'prostitute' (16-20 centuries). |
| Date: | 1600-1700 |
| Origin: | Perhaps from spunk 'material for lighting fires'; SPUNK |
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punk
1 [uncountable] also punk rockAPM a type of loud music popular in the late 1970s and 1980s
2 [countable] also punk rockerSSY someone who likes punk music and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair : 
punk hairstyles
punk hairstyles3 [countable] American English informalSCC a young man who fights and breaks the law
4 [uncountable] American English a substance that burns without a flame that is used to light fireworks etc
