punk /pʌŋk/ BrE AmE noun
[ Sense 1-3: Date: 1900-2000 ; Origin: Perhaps from punk 'prostitute' (16-20 centuries) . ]
[ Sense 4: Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Perhaps from spunk 'material for lighting fires' ; ⇨ ↑ spunk ]
1 . [uncountable] ( also ˌpunk ˈrock ) a type of loud music popular in the late 1970s and 1980s
2 . [countable] ( also punk rocker ) someone who likes punk music and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair:
punk hairstyles
3 . [countable] American English informal 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 ↑ firework s etc