One who engages in sexual intercourse
My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
A worthless person, particularly
This fellow was just a punk... a nobody.
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.
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."
Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
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...
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You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing, and chains.
To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
To prank.
I got expelled when I punked the principal.