Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to punk
Participle: punked
Gerund: punking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | punk |
| you | punk |
| he;she;it | punks |
| we | punk |
| you | punk |
| they | punk |
Perfect
| I | have punked |
| you | have punked |
| he;she;it | has punked |
| we | have punked |
| you | have punked |
| they | have punked |
Past
| I | punked |
| you | punked |
| he;she;it | punked |
| we | punked |
| you | punked |
| they | punked |
Pluperfect
| I | had punked |
| you | had punked |
| he;she;it | had punked |
| we | had punked |
| you | had punked |
| they | had punked |
Future
| I | will punk |
| you | will punk |
| he;she;it | will punk |
| we | will punk |
| you | will punk |
| they | will punk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have punked |
| you | will have punked |
| he;she;it | will have punked |
| we | will have punked |
| you | will have punked |
| they | will have punked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | punk |
| you | punk |
| he;she;it | punk |
| we | punk |
| you | punk |
| they | punk |
Perfect
| I | have punked |
| you | have punked |
| he;she;it | have punked |
| we | have punked |
| you | have punked |
| they | have punked |
Imperfect
| I | punked |
| you | punked |
| he;she;it | punked |
| we | punked |
| you | punked |
| they | punked |
Pluperfect
| I | had punked |
| you | had punked |
| he;she;it | had punked |
| we | had punked |
| you | had punked |
| they | had punked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would punk |
| you | would punk |
| he;she;it | would punk |
| we | would punk |
| you | would punk |
| they | would punk |
Perfect
| I | would have punked |
| you | would have punked |
| he;she;it | would have punked |
| we | would have punked |
| you | would have punked |
| they | would have punked |
Imperative
| you | punk |
| we | Let's punk |
| you | punk |
Verbs conjugated like 'punk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'punk'
bunk,
dunk,
funk,
gunk,
junk,
pink,
plunk,
puck,
pun,
punt,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from punk (“rotten wood dust used as tinder”), attested since 1678, to anything worthless (attested since 1869) and then to any undesirable person (since 1908). The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk (“prank”, verb) was popularized by the American television show Punk'd (2003).
Sample Sentences
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Ricky punked his new cell-mates.
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"Hell, Haggerty, with that caved-in chest you got, and with your guts pickled in alcohol, and a leg and a half in the grave, the Navy wouldn't even take you for punkin', Barney sourly said. [1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 19, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:]
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If you start to stare at men's asses, to try & punk them in their moments with God; you are an enemy of God! Anyone looking upon a man as though a woman is in danger of judgement! -<>< [2022 April 30, @GisUsIsReal, Twitter:]
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I got expelled when I punked the principal.
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“We were laughing because it was like, ‘Do you think we’re being punked?’” said Leigh Wade, an OB-GYN who was there with her husband, Richard Iuorio, an emergency room doctor who’d waited for a reservation since February. [2023 September 25, Becky Hughes, quoting Leigh Wade, “New York’s Hottest Steakhouse Was a Fake, Until Saturday Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.
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Suzy, a pump young woman with sparkling brown eyes and punked hair tucked behind her ears, said blankly, "What?" [1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 60:]
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Like the Apartments, the supports hadn't written many songs of their own. They ran on that old standby, “fun,” in the form of “punked up” versions of pop songs like “It's my Party,” alongside obscure new wave/punk covers such as Lene Lovich's “Cuckoo Clock.” [2011, David Nichols, The Go-Betweens, →ISBN, page 60:]
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Their raucous take on the beloved, iconic Israeli folk song allegedly drew the ire of the songwriter, Naomi Shemer, and inspired Yidcore to punk up Jewish culture in myriad ways over the course of the next decade. [2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk, →ISBN, page 59:]