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Punk rock

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Noun
  1. 1
    A genre of rock music associated with short, loud, energetic songs played on electric guitars and drums and employing angry, offensive, and/or political lyrics. uncountable

    "Punk rock died when the first kid said / "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead""

  2. 2
    rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock wordnet

Etymology

See punk + rock. First attested in 1970 in reference to rockabilly; possibly coined in its current sense by American music critic Dave Marsh in the May 1971 issue of Creem, from earlier punk music.

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