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Punk or punks may refer to:

• Punk rock,• Punk, the third great birth of teenage music (following Elvis Presley in 1956, and The Beatles in 1962-1970).

Originated by three bands simultaneously and independently, Punk came to public notice at the close of 1976 when The Sex Pistols became notorious. The two other bands (The Saints, The Ramones) switched their focuses to London and the UK, joining the huge explosion which began there, following The Sex Pistols. Each of the bands consisted of members who suffered various trauma and mental illness, which were undiagnosed and therefore ridiculed in those years. Ultimately, this is what made for the anger of Punk and the passion shown by the three original bands. The historical role of Punk was to burst into consciousness at the moment when the settlement established by the Bretton Woods Agreement was reneged on by US President Nixon, and prior to the neoliberal era begun by UK PM Thatcher and US President Reagan. The slackwater between two historical eras explains how such an anti-art phenomenon could have occurred, at all.

• 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
    • Biopunk
    • Nanopunk
    • Postcyberpunk
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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