skatepunk
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See also: skate punk
English
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Etymology
From skate + punk, from its popularity among skateboarders.
Noun
skatepunk (countable and uncountable, plural skatepunks)
- (uncountable, music) A fast, intense, melodic form of hardcore punk music, associated with skateboarding culture.
- Synonym: skatecore
- 2021, Mike Damante, Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise, Di Angelo Publications, →ISBN:
- Similar to how Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid brought the early 90s punk revival to the top of alternative rock, blink-182 took skate-punk to the masses in 1999 with Enema of the State.
- (countable) A member of the skateboarding subculture that listens to punk music.
- 2008, Rebecca Rosenblum, Once, page 113:
- Nothing was moving out there except falling snow, a Finch bus and insufficiently dressed skatepunks.
Translations
music genre
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