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

Ironically, Television, which formed in 1973, were the band to initiate the Lower Manhattan club CBGB, which proved to be the key incubator for punk rock. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 Nov. 2026

Nowadays, the most punk rock thing a 30-something mom could do would be to bring a picture of Emma Chamberlain to the salon. — Molly Mulshine, InStyle, 30 Oct. 2026

Music of the margins — which before neoperreo was punk rock and hip-hop — had been framed in opposition to polite society. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

In early November 1985, an Evanston teenager named Aadam Jacobs took the CTA’s Red Line to see a concert by the Chicago punk rock band Naked Raygun at a movie theater in Uptown. — Kevin McKeough, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

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