punk
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Is punk a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:Examples: "My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife."; "[…] And made them fight, like mad or drunk, / For Dame Religion, as for punk..."; "Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely."countablehistoricaluncountable
2. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:Examples: "The Beaus... At night make a Punk of him that's first drunk."Synonyms: catamite, gunselcountableobsoleteuncountable
3. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:Synonyms: bottomUScountableuncountable
4. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:Examples: "They'd pick up youngsters as, well—as their playthings. These kids were called punks."UScountableslanguncountable
5. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:UScountablederogatoryuncountable
6. (countable) One who engages in sexual intercourse, particularly:Examples: "A punk, if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life."; "If he is small and weak, he may decide to become a ‘punk’ and allow himself to be raped by the inmate most likely to protect him."; "Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk."Synonyms: prison bitchUScountableslanguncountable
adj (English)
1. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularlyExamples: "Babbitt boomed on: "Pretty punk service the Company giving us on these car-lines. Nonsense to only run the Portland Road cars once every seven minutes. Fellow gets mighty cold on a winter morning, waiting on a street corner with the wind nipping at his ankles.""UScolloquial
2. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularlyUScolloquial
3. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularlyExamples: "... Donald Trump is also a coward. For all of his tough talk and bluster, the president of the United States is a punk ass bitch."UScolloquial
4. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularlyExamples: "With the subtleties of dressing ran other complex worries. "I feel kind of punk this morning," he said. "I think I had too much dinner last evening. You oughtn't to serve those heavy banana fritters.""UScolloquial
5. (US, colloquial) Worthless, contemptible, particularlyUScolloquial
verb (English)
1. (slang) To pimp.Synonyms: hustle, prostitute, dog out, hustle, mack, pander, pimp, pimp outslang
2. (slang, transitive) To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).Examples: "Ricky punked his new cell-mates."; ""Hell, Haggerty, with that caved-in chest you got, and with your guts pickled in alcohol, and a leg and a half in the grave, the Navy wouldn't even take you for punkin', Barney sourly said."; "If you start to stare at men's asses, to try & punk them in their moments with God; you are an enemy of God! Anyone looking upon a man as though a woman is in danger of judgement! -<><"slangtransitive
3. (slang, transitive) To prank.Examples: "I got expelled when I punked the principal."; "“We were laughing because it was like, ‘Do you think we’re being punked?’” said Leigh Wade, an OB-GYN who was there with her husband, Richard Iuorio, an emergency room doctor who’d waited for a reservation since February."slangtransitive
4. (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.Examples: "Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute."especially
5. (transitive, often with "out" or "up") To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.Examples: "Suzy, a pump young woman with sparkling brown eyes and punked hair tucked behind her ears, said blankly, "What?""; "Like the Apartments, the supports hadn't written many songs of their own. They ran on that old standby, “fun,” in the form of “punked up” versions of pop songs like “It's my Party,” alongside obscure new wave/punk covers such as Lene Lovich's “Cuckoo Clock.”"; "Their raucous take on the beloved, iconic Israeli folk song allegedly drew the ire of the songwriter, Naomi Shemer, and inspired Yidcore to punk up Jewish culture in myriad ways over the course of the next decade."oftentransitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.Examples: "As the East-Indians use Moxa, so these burn with Punk, which is the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak."; "If they attack a house that is pretty well manned, they [Indians in Pennsylvania] creep behind some fence, or hedge, or tree, and shoot red-hot iron slugs, or punk, into the roof, and fire the house […]"; "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 punk struck from his flint and steel; ..."uncountable
2. (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.Examples: "On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk.""; "Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a punk from the dying campfire."; "He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM!"countable
Definition source: Wiktionary