punk

noun

• 1North American informal a worthless person (often used as a general term of abuse): you think any of these punks they got fighting today could stand up to Joe Louis?
• a criminal or thug: there’s never been a better time to take our streets back from the punks
• US (in prison slang) a passive male homosexual: he determined to be made into no one’s punk
• an inexperienced young person: [as modifier]:you were a nobody, a punk kid starting out

• 2 (also punk rock) [mass noun] a loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970s: punk had turned pop music and its attendant culture on its head
• (also punk rocker) [count noun] an admirer or player of punk rock, typically characterized by coloured spiked hair and clothing decorated with safety pins or zips: punks fought Teds on the Kings Road on Saturday afternoons

• 3 [mass noun] chiefly North American soft, crumbly wood that has been attacked by fungus, used as tinder.

adjective

• 1North American informal in poor condition:I felt too punk to eat

• 2relating to punk rock and its associated subculture:a punk band a punk haircut