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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
punk
punk/pʌŋk/ noun Sense 1-3: [date : 1900-2000; Origin : Perhaps from punk 'prostitute' (16-20 centuries). ] Sense 4: [date : 1600-1700; Origin : Perhaps from spunk 'material for lighting fires'; ⇨ spunk] 1. [UNCOUNTABLE] (also ˌpunk ˈrock) a type of loud music popular in the late 1970s and 1980s
2. [COUNTABLE] (also punk rocker) someone who likes punk music and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair: ▪ punk hairstyles
3. [COUNTABLE] American English informal a young man who fights and breaks the law
4. [UNCOUNTABLE] American English a substance that burns without a flame that is used to light fireworksetc
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE young ▪ Worn by young hooligans, punks, football thugs. ▪ One Saturday a couple of young punks decided to start a fight with my father. ▪ Sugar and Spice by Nigel Williams Carol is one of a party of young punk girls. NOUN band ▪ The Stranglers were the punk band your dad could appreciate; assuming you had a dad, that is. ▪ Then I saw all these punk bands - and I couldn't believe it. ▪ Many punk bands extended this antagonism to all established rock musicians over the age of twenty-five. rock ▪ For the rest of us, I suspect, recalling punk rock is a rather self-indulgent activity. ▪ Not very punk rock, eh? ▪ By the time I got there, a recession and punk rock had knocked all that on the head. ▪ Bernie says he invented punk rock. ▪ No-one ever called the Clash a punk rock band. ▪ The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock. rocker ▪ As a result, they lost tons of money when punk rockers trashed concert halls during their first shows. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I'd like to find the punk who broke off my car antenna. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A couple of punks on the far side, also waiting to cross, were pointing at the oblivious Slater and laughing. ▪ All these punks are the same. ▪ Guys like that, cheap punks, are easy enough to handle when you feel up to it. ▪ Sid Vicious, the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy. ▪ Take punk, it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates. ▪ Think of them as a punk Dire Straits. ▪ Which is fine -- we enjoy a good debate in print, sensationalist punks that we are.
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