punk rock
noun
: rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expressions of alienation and social discontent
punk rocker
noun
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The show has a punk rock, garage band, DIY, mix tape, basement, make-do sensibility, flowing from the band and album inspiring its title.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Keele said he’s known Gamboa for nine years, having met through Salt Lake City’s independent punk rock scene.
—Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
Ska music’s rise in Orange County is another focus of the book, with Sublime and No Doubt leading the way in the third-wave sound of the ’90s, which was another musical subculture emerging concurrently with punk rock and hardcore in the region.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 5 June 2025
Fans young and old looked at each other in disbelief, their lives changed, their DNA forever altered by punk rock.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Keele said he’s known Gamboa for nine years, having met through Salt Lake City’s independent punk rock scene.
—Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
Ska music’s rise in Orange County is another focus of the book, with Sublime and No Doubt leading the way in the third-wave sound of the ’90s, which was another musical subculture emerging concurrently with punk rock and hardcore in the region.
—Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 5 June 2025
Fans young and old looked at each other in disbelief, their lives changed, their DNA forever altered by punk rock.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for punk rock
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“Punk rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punk%20rock. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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