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punky

[puhng-kee] / ˈpʌŋ ki /
NOUN
biting midge
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With Wood now fully integrated into the group , punky, guitar-centric rockers like “Respectable,” “When the Whip Comes Down” and “Shattered” snarl.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Lisbon, a punky explosion of noise from their debut album, gets a rare outing.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

“Angular, punky, buncha noise stuff,” affirms Menashe, who also played with acclaimed Bloomington-to-L.A. band Triptides starting in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2025

And the untamed, punky energy of People was the only number where the band were really allowed to cut loose.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2025

There’s a group at Columbia that meets Sunday afternoons to jam on this punky fake jazz everyone’s into.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

During the cruise, he sat in with multiple acts, from Cantrell to the punkier Waco Brothers.

From Washington Post Mar. 11, 2022

It’s their first attempt at reggae, played punkier, with a new, Jones-penned intro.

From The Guardian Jan. 9, 2020

They’re underlined by music that expands on all of her guitar-band idioms: growing punkier, more psychedelic, dronier and noisier as the songs demand.

From New York Times May 16, 2018

They preferred the punkier numbers, like “Even the Losers” and “Refugee,” to the Byrds-ier T.P.

From The New Yorker Nov. 13, 2015

A punkier version of a song I’d heard before started to play over the coffee shop’s speakers.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

A charming mini-dress from 2000 by Miguel Adrover, known for redesigning salvaged garments, may be the punkiest postpunk garment in the whole show.

From New York Times May 9, 2013

For a gallery play, it was the punkiest I ever put up.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

"I can believe that," says I. For an auto it was the punkiest ever.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

Say, wasn't that the punkiest stunt that fellow in black was doin' on the platform?

From Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo




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