Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
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Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
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Punk subculture
The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom ...
, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture such as:
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Punk fashion
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Punk ideologies
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Punk literature
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Punk visual art
Writing genres
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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
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Cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre with a computers-focused setting
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Biopunk
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Nanopunk
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Postcyberpunk
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Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or ...
, a science fiction subgenre that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery
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Atompunk
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Clockpunk
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Dieselpunk
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology and postmodern ...
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Splatterpunk, a movement within horror fiction in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence
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Solarpunk, an emerging genre of fiction with themes of sustainability and ecology as solutions to global challenges.
People
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Punk (video game player) (born 1999), professional ''Street Fighter V'' player
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CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler, sports commentator, actor, and retired mixed martial artist currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Best known for ...
(born 1978), American retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Arts, entertainment and media
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''Punks'' (film), a 2000 film centered on a group of LGBT African American friends
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P.U.N.K.S.
''P.U.N.K.S.'' is a 1999 film about a group of bullied teens who find a suit created by a scientist. The suit provides whoever wears it superhuman strength, as well as leaving the wearer open to having their body controlled by someone else via wi ...
'', a 1999 movie about a group of bullied teens who find a suit created by a scientist
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''Punk'' (Chai album), 2019
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''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''
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''Punk'' (magazine), a 1970s United States punk music magazine
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The Encyclopedia of Punk'', a 2006 reference work by Brian Cogan
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''Punk'' (TV series), an American documentary television series
Other uses
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Punk (fireworks), a smoldering stick used for lighting firework fuse
* Punk, a colloquialism for the cattail reed, genus ''
Typha
''Typha'' is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush or reedmace, in American English as reed, cattail, or punks, in A ...
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* Punkwood, rotted or fungus-infested wood which is brittle and crumbly.
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Punk, an evil robot from the Mega Man series
See also
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Donny the Punk (1946–1996), United States prison reform activist
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Punk'd'', an MTV hidden-camera television program
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