to punk
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8.4
- verb
- /pʌŋk/
- Slang
:
hacer una broma a alguien
- Otherwise you'll get punked every day.
I believe unless I'm getting punked a lot, I believe this is a real story.
- I believe unless I'm getting punked a lot, I believe this is a real story.
- In improv, there is one rule, and the rule is don't punk the game.
- OK, Honest to God, I think I'm being punked.
- You're trying to punk me like, like I'm your child or speak down to me.
- And I was like, I, I'm sitting there thinking, I felt like I was being punked.
- And it's like so easy that I kind of feel like I'm being punked when I'm doing my eyes.
Examples
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You can't let them punk you.
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Clint Eastwood is either out of his goddamn mind or he punked the RNC.
Blog text (28) -
Yeah, but yeah, Also, I punked over Joey on his channel.
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Are we, like, being punked here or...?
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"Aw baby, why you gonna punk me like that?" said as if every action were intentional.
Fiction book (1994) -
Oh, to all my viewers, you just got punked, baby.
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I think our postal person punked us on Halloween by placing all these tricks inside the box.
Blog text (5) -
And that's why, about three weeks ago, a coworker punked me perfectly.
Blog text (29) -
I thought Eastwood's performance at the RNC was ironical and meant to punk the Republicans?
Blog text (29) -
Don't let them punk you into doing something you don't want to do.
Synonyms
16
2.9
To play a trick on someone to make people laugh
4
3.1
Do small tricks to surprise or make someone laugh
1
8.7
To make a playful joke or trick someone to make them laugh
Compounds
7
4.2
A young person who plays or likes loud, fast guitar music and dresses in leather with spiked hair
How Humiliating
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the verb punk is to think it makes someone look like a 'punk' (a fool or worthless person); to punk someone is to trick or embarrass them as a joke. That's why people say they were 'punked' when they were pranked on purpose.