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🎸 A punk music fan 😏 A prankster 🧑‍🎤 A rebellious youth
punker

punker

2 7.5
A person who listens to or plays loud fast guitar music and dresses in a bold style
  • noun
  • /ˈpʌŋkər/
translation icon : punk
  • Thank God for places like Allentown's Crocodile Rock Café, where that point was driven home again Friday night at a concert by pop-punkers All Time Low.

Examples

  • The punker wore a leather jacket and spiked hair to the concert.

  • At the festival, I saw a group of punkers dancing to their favorite band.

  • Did you see that punker there?

    Isleen Pines (2023)

  • Hey, what are you, some sort of punker?.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

  • Are you a punker?

    Out of the Blue (1981)

  • She called herself the Aztec punker.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Punkers chat with nerds, cheerleaders with potheads.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • That's why country music fanatics don't typically hang out with punkers, swing cats, or goths.

    Blog text (13)

  • Many punkers express their individuality through unique fashion and music.

Synonyms

punk
vspunker
94 6.6

A style of loud, fast rock music or a person who likes that music

refers to an individual who listens or performs rather than the music style
punk rocker
vspunker
7 4.2

A young person who plays or likes loud, fast guitar music and dresses in leather with spiked hair

is broader, applying to any age who listens or performs not just young enthusiasts

How Punk

punk rocker
7 4.2
punker
2 7.5

Surface Forms

punker singular
punkers plural

Morphology

punker = punk (transparent) = punk + er

The word is a regular agentive formation from 'punk' with the suffix '-er', so the meaning is straightforwardly recoverable.

Etymology

Punker comes from punk plus the ending -er, which means 'one who is a punk'. Punk became the name of loud, fast music and a rebellious style in the 1970s, so a punker is someone who plays or follows that music.