punker
nounEtymology From punk + -er.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Dated, Slang Synonym of punk (“a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre”).
- 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.
- And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, “Burnin' With the 8 Ball”, in Chicago Reader:
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- She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun, page 72:
- Derived terms
- pop-punker