Punker

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of punk (“a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre”). dated, slang

    "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Four big hippie bikers were out there drinking & eyeing up the punkers."

  2. 2
    Archaic form of punkah. alt-of, archaic

Example

More examples

"1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Four big hippie bikers were out there drinking & eyeing up the punkers."

Etymology

From punk + -er.

Related phrases

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