Punk
Appearance
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
- Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
- Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture such as:
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
- Splatterpunk, a movement within horror fiction in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence
- Solarpunk, an emerging genre of fiction with themes of sustainability and ecology as solutions to global challenges.
People
- Punk (video game player) (born 1999), professional Street Fighter V player
- CM Punk (born 1978), American retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Arts, entertainment and media
- Punks (film), a 2000 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), 2021
- "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
- Punkwood, rotted or fungus-infested wood which is brittle and crumbly.
- Punk, an 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