word-vault/dist/data/cards/pu/punk.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "punk",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a type of loud and aggressive rock music popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a punk band"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who likes punk music and dresses like a punk musician, for example by wearing metal chains, leather clothes and having brightly coloured hair",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a punk haircut"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a young man or boy who behaves in a rude or violent way",
            "labels": "(especially North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "synonyms": "lout"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pʌŋk/",
                "audio": "pu/punk/punk__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pʌŋk/",
                "audio": "pu/punk/punk__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent. (originally referring to a soft, crumbly wood attacked by fungus and used as tinder): perhaps, in some senses, related to archaic punk ‘prostitute’, also to spunk."
}