noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
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Worn by young hooligans, punks , football thugs.
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One Saturday a couple of young punks decided to start a fight with my father.
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Sugar and Spice by Nigel Williams Carol is one of a party of young punk girls.
■ NOUN
band
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The Stranglers were the punk band your dad could appreciate; assuming you had a dad, that is.
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Then I saw all these punk bands - and I couldn't believe it.
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Many punk bands extended this antagonism to all established rock musicians over the age of twenty-five.
rock
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For the rest of us, I suspect, recalling punk rock is a rather self-indulgent activity.
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Not very punk rock , eh?
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By the time I got there, a recession and punk rock had knocked all that on the head.
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Bernie says he invented punk rock .
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No-one ever called the Clash a punk rock band.
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The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock .
rocker
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As a result, they lost tons of money when punk rockers trashed concert halls during their first shows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'd like to find the punk who broke off my car antenna.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of punks on the far side, also waiting to cross, were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing.
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All these punks are the same.
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Guys like that, cheap punks, are easy enough to handle when you feel up to it.
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Sid Vicious, the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy.
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Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates.
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Think of them as a punk Dire Straits.
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Which is fine -- we enjoy a good debate in print, sensationalist punks that we are.