punk

verb

to trick somebody

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noun

smoldering stick used for lighting firework fuses

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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋk/ / [ˈpʰʌŋk]

adj

Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from punk (“rotten wood dust used as tinder”), attested since 1678, to anything worthless (attested since 1869) and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk (“prank”, verb) was popularized by the American television show Punk'd (2003).

Worthless, contemptible, particularly
“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."”
Worthless, contemptible, particularly
Worthless, contemptible, particularly
“... 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.”
Worthless, contemptible, particularly
“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."”
Worthless, contemptible, particularly
Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
“You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing, and chains.”
“BrewDog, the craft beer company that prides itself on a “punk” ethos, has been accused of acting like “just another multinational corporate machine” after forcing a family-run pub to change its name or face legal action.”

noun

Etymology: Unclear; first attested circa 1680 in writings about Native American practices, probably from Unami punkw (“dust”), though it has also been suggested it could be an alteration of spunk (“tinder”) (compare funk (“rotten wood”)).

Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
“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 […]”
A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
“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.”

verb

To pimp.
To forcibly perform anal sex upon (an unwilling partner).
“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.”
To prank.
“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.”
To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
“Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.”
To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
“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.””