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• n  a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes)
• n  an aggressive and violent young criminal
• n  substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
• n  material for starting a fire
• n  a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
• n  rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

• Like high schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own.
• These disco-loving Scottish art-school punks spend much of their second album boasting of their badness.
• They were nothing but punkscallow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths.

• hood
• hoodlum
• goon
• punk
• thug
• tough
• toughie
• strong-armer
• kindling
• tinder
• touchwood
• spunk
• punk rocker
• punk rock

News & Articles

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• No Age Share Blistering Mutant Punk Jammer 'C'mon Stimmung'
  We recently visited No Age in the studio , where Dean Spunt told us a thing or two about the Los Angeles art-punks' new album,
  June 12, 2013 - Spin
• Before Burma
  Roger Miller is well known as the guitarist and vocalist with Boston post-punks Mission to Burma, but not everyone knows that the Ann Arbor native and brother of Destroy All Monsters’ Larry and Ben Miller was in a psychedelic rock band with those siblings in A2 in the ’60s called Sproton Layer. Even crazier, Sproton Layer is playing two reunion shows this week in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Miller ...
  June 12, 2013 - Detroit Metro Times

Quotes

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• Kevin Harvick in USA Today
  In total defiance to the vicious lies and hateful allegations of 'racism' leveled at me by irresponsible, unprofessional and downright goofy media punks, I never said a word about immigration or language, specifically not the alleged slam against... Ted Nugent http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nugent&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGWgM8Yy4CC5l7UvYvrWGGmFtKgcw abc13.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story%3Fsection%3Dstate%26id%3D4975387&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGBuKYmO2KTe9AQlQVJnjfiKE9SZg Jan 26, 2007 79022 106402 punks There are a lot of them that disrespect the sport week in and week out and they act like a bunch of 18-year-old punks, which most of them probably are, and they just need to grow up," Harvick said. "If we all move in the same direction,...
• Rasheed Wallace in USA Today
  You can't rattle us,Wallace said. "We ain't no punks."