Usually means: Rebellious, anti-establishment rock music genre.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word punk:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. punk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. punk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punk, punk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. punk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Punk, punk: Wordnik
  7. punk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -punk, punk: Wiktionary
  9. punk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. punk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. punk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. punk: Dictionary.com
  13. punk (1), punk (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. punk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Punk (Chai album), Punk (Sirius), Punk (TV series), Punk (Young Thug album), Punk (fireworks), Punk (magazine), Punk (subculture), Punk (video game player), Punk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Punk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. punk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. punk: Rhymezone
  19. Punk (m), punk, punk, punk, punk (de), punk (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. punk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PUNK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. punk: Free Dictionary
  23. punk: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. punk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. punk: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. punk: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. punk, punk, punk, punk, punk, punk, punk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. punk: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Punk (Culture), Punk ( urban slang version ), Punk, punk: Urban Dictionary
  4. Punk: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See punking as well.)

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noun:  (countable) A person used for sex, particularly:
noun:  (now historical and rare) Synonym of prostitute: a person paid for sex.
noun:  (LGBTQ, obsolete) Synonym of catamite: a boy or younger man used by an older man as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
noun:  (chiefly US, LGBTQ) Synonym of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.
noun:  (US, LGBTQ, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
noun:  (US, LGBTQ, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Synonym of faggot: any male homosexual.
noun:  (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
noun:  (countable, US slang) A worthless person, particularly:
noun:  (humorous, rare) Synonym of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.
noun:  (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
noun:  (derogatory) Synonym of sissy: a weak, timid person.
noun:  Synonym of amateur.
noun:  (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
noun:  (uncountable, science fiction) Any of the punk genres: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
noun:  (uncountable) The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.
adjective:  (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularly
adjective:  Bad, substandard.
adjective:  Thuggish, criminal.
adjective:  (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Cowardly.
adjective:  Poorly, sickly.
adjective:  Inexperienced.
adjective:  Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
verb:  (slang) To pimp.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
verb:  (slang, transitive) To prank.
verb:  (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
verb:  (transitive, often with "out" or "up") To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
noun:  (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
noun:  (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
noun:  (uncountable, music) Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. [(music) A genre of rock music associated with short, loud, energetic songs played on electric guitars and drums and employing angry, offensive, and/or political lyrics.]
noun:  (countable) Short for punk rocker, a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre. [(informal) A person who plays, or is a fan of, punk rock.]

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