punk
Example Sentences
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The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
Andrew Ranken, drummer and founding member of English Celtic punk band the Pogues, has died, the band announced on social media.
From Los Angeles Times
Your band is part of a new initiative aimed at getting more punk bands to speak truth to power.
From Los Angeles Times
You started scowling and yelling and listening to punk rock music.
From Literature
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I could hear Paulie T. snickering, because he was a punk way back from the beginning.
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