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noun
One who engages in sexual intercourse
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...
One who engages in sexual intercourse
The Beaus... At night make a Punk of him that's first drunk.
One who engages in sexual intercourse
One who engages in sexual intercourse
They'd pick up youngsters as, well—as their playthings. These kids were called punks.
One who engages in sexual intercourse
adj
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
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.”