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noun
- (countable) (context, 16th century) A prostitute, possibly deriving from "puncture".
- (RQ:Shakespeare Measure), V.i.
- :My lord, she may be a ; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
- (countable) (context, 19th century, rare) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship; a catamite.
- Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's .
- (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
- (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
- (countable) A person subscribing to the movement, a punk rocker.
- Usage note: An informal plural used within the punk subculture is punx.
- (countable) (rfd-redundant) A worthless person.
- (countable) A juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker.
- (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- 1907, Jack London, The Road, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658
- :On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "."
- 1994, Ashland Price, Viking Tempest, p353
- :Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a from the dying campfire.
- 2004, Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place, p221
- :He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a to light the fuse, and KABOOM!
- (uncountable) Various kinds of material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dry decayed wood or touchwood.http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=punk&use1913=on
- 1899, H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, p271
- :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 struck from his flint and steel; ...
- 1922, Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma, p61
- :The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.
- 2001, William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man, p116
- :He made him a little smoldering pocket of to light the fuses and waited.
verb
- (17th century) To pimp.
- Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.
- To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
- Tony punked all his new cell-mates.
- To prank.
- I got expelled when I punked the principal.
- 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.
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