punk rock

noun

: rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expressions of alienation and social discontent

punk rocker noun

Examples of punk rock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Comments What's more punk rock than getting banned by Elon Musk's X? —Debbie Day, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025

John Webb grew up in Atlanta, Georgia wanting to be either a professional soccer player or the lead singer in a punk rock band. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025

Half-prank, half-pastiche and 100% punk rock, the film’s mishmash aesthetics are due to the many artists who volunteered to build out Drew’s gender-bending Gotham City by any means necessary, from animation to stop-motion to miniatures. —Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025

They were lost boys looking for fun in the urban wasteland, but almost accidentally inventing punk rock. —Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for punk rock

• alcock
• beanstalk
• bedrock
• boardwalk
• catwalk
• cornstalk
• crosswalk
• deadlock
• feedstock
• fetlock
• flintlock
• goshawk

Kids Definition

punk rock

noun

: rock music marked by extreme expressions of anger and social discontent