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

punker

8.5
A young person who causes trouble or takes part in small crimes
  • noun
  • /ˈpʌŋkər/
  • Slang
translation icon : delincuente
  • The greasy punkers dive for cover and scramble out of the alley under a hail of bullets.

Examples

  • Any dumb punkers been picking on ya?

    Crackers (1984)

  • All the punkers laugh like the half-wits they are as Death's Head #1 shoves Stanley into Death's Head #2.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • "Is that punker sister of yours who went off?"

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Even without those three things, this one thing is more than enough reason not to vote for Punker in Chief Barack Obama again.

    Blog text (29)

  • He's a good Mexican, hard-working, responsible, and brought you all up well, except for that punker girl.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The punker wore a spiked leather jacket and had colorful hair, making a bold statement against authority.

  • After causing trouble at the mall, the group of punkers ran away laughing and shouting.

  • The punker's defiance was clear as he spray-painted a mural on the wall despite the no-tagging signs.

Synonyms

punk
vspunker
  • Offensive
466 7.9

A young person who acts violently or breaks the law

is a young person seen as rebellious or involved in petty crime or violence
thug
vspunker
  • Offensive
244 4.9

A violent person who attacks or threatens others

is specifically about a young rebellious person often in minor crime
hoodlum
vspunker
  • Offensive
38 7.6

A young person who steals, fights, or causes trouble with a gang

focuses on lone rebellious youth and petty trouble not gang membership
toughie
vspunker
  • Offensive
8.9

A young person who is violent and often breaks the law

is more about rebellion and minor offenses rather than serious violence

How Rebellious

gang
832 2.8
punker
  • Slang
8.5
delinquent
20 6.1
troublemaker
  • Offensive
69 4.1

Surface Forms

punker singular
punkers plural

Morphology

punker = punk (semi-transparent) = punk + er

The connection to 'punk' is clear, but the resulting noun is a slightly specialized label for a type of person rather than a fully compositional everyday form.

Etymology

Punker can mean a young troublemaker because punk long carried the idea of a 'rowdy or rough youth', and the -er ending makes it 'a person like that', so a punker can be a rebellious or criminal young person.