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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
punk + -er
Noun
punker (plural punkers)
- (music, dated slang) Synonym of punk (“a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre”)
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Four big hippie bikers were out there drinking & eyeing up the punkers.
1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, “Burnin' With the 8 Ball”, in Chicago Reader:And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun, page 72:She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.
Etymology 2
Noun
punker (plural punkers)
- Archaic form of punkah.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Either borrowed from English punker or natively formed from punk + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʏŋ.kər/
- Hyphenation: pun‧ker
Noun
punker m (plural punkers)
- (music) A punk (fan of punk rock, member of the punk subculture); (by extension) anyone with a mohawk or a similar distinct hairstyle.
- Synonym: punk
Estonian
Noun
punker (genitive punkri, partitive punkrit)
- bunker
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
punker m (definite singular punkeren, indefinite plural punkere, definite plural punkerne)
- punk (punk rocker)