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Punk

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Punk or punks may refer to:

Genres, subculture, and related aspects

Writing genres

  • Cyberpunk derivatives, subgenres of speculative fiction with universes built on one particular technology that is extrapolated to a highly sophisticated level, a gritty transreal urban style, or a particular approach to social themes
    • Cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre with a computers-focused setting
    • Steampunk, a science fiction subgenre that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery
      • Atompunk
      • Clockpunk
      • Dieselpunk
  • Splatterpunk, a movement within horror fiction in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence

People

  • Punk (video game player) (born 1999), professional Street Fighter V player
  • CM Punk (born 1978), American retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
  • PUNK (born 1991), Alexis Morales, professional yeast talker, and visionary

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Punks (film), a 2001 film centered on a group of LGBT African American friends
  • P.U.N.K.S., a 1999 movie about a group of bullied teens who find a suit created by a scientist
  • Punk (Chai album), 2019
  • Punk (Young Thug album), 2020
  • "Punk", a song from the 2001 Gorillaz self-titled debut album
  • "Punk", a song from the 2003 Ferry Corsten album Right of Way
  • Punk (magazine), a 1970s United States punk music magazine
  • The Encyclopedia of Punk, a 2006 reference work by Brian Cogan
  • Punk (TV series), an American documentary television series

Other uses

  • Punk (fireworks), a smoldering stick used for lighting firework fuse
  • Punk, a colloquialism for the cattail reed, genus Typha
  • Punk and evil robot from the Mega Man series

See also

  • Donny the Punk (1946–1996), United States prison reform activist
  • Punk'd, an MTV hidden-camera television program
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