n. 1 ruffian, hoodlum, hooligan, delinquent, tough, thug, vandal, yahoo, barbarian, Colloq goon, mug A couple of young punks were standing at the bar, trying to look important
adj. 2 inferior, rotten, unimportant, worthless, bad, poor, awful, Colloq lousy I thought that the lead in the play was a punk actor