1907 Washington Post 15 Dec. (Mag. section) 16/3 Kid pan-handlers spoke before a few high-toned charity workers and fluttering-hearted philanthropists on ‘How We'se Kids Ain't So Punk, After All’.

1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 180 No punk copper or rube sheriff looking for a quick rep was going to put over on him an unexpected frisk.

1938 J. Fante Wait until Spring, Bandini i. 30 Of course he knew more than his punk brother Federico, but not half so much as the brother beside him, Arturo.

1950 J. Kerouac Let. 3 Dec. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1996) 240 Punk hoodlum grabs my arms from behind,..kneeing me in the balls meanwhile.

1954 J. Thompson Swell-looking Babe 82 She ain't some punk bobby-soxer.

1969 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp (new ed.) 150 I played you off as my punk nephew from Kansas City.

1990 N. DeMille Gold Coast iii. xv. 202 The punk airport rent-a-cops.

1994 N. McCall Makes me wanna Holler 65 How could I turn punk after having been so baad [sic] before?

2001 B. Gifford Out of Past 10 Cagney..as the gangster Rocky Sullivan, plays to the hilt the older version of the kids themselves: he's what they'll be in a few years if they continue to live their punk lifestyle.

1971 Rolling Stone 15 Apr. 42/1 Especially those with an ear for the nice-wrought mainstream punk raunch and snidely clever lyrics.

1976 New Statesman 17 Dec. 884/1 A typically gutsy assertion of the punk credo: we are young, we are misunderstood.

1980 B. W. Aldiss Life in West ii. 254 This evening, he is seeing the old year out with Fred Cholera and the Pustules. They're a bit more punk than Genesis.

1983 Jinty Ann. 1984 99/1 Ella..had long ago decided the punk life was the one for her.

1997 Details Feb. 113/3 Mood music for mutants. Abstract, rhythm impaired, and messed up in a very punk way.

2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 16 Other girls hated her..because she was punk and got away dressing that way a lot because her mom had died.

1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 9/6 Certain elements in what we did..created a taste for a certain kind of thing which meant that others could organise punk styled bands.

1977 Ripped & Torn vi. 3 There's only one restriction: Punk/Punk related stuff only, OK?

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. c12/4 They cheered when the band balanced its feats of instrumental wizardry with an abrasive, clearly punk-influenced intensity.

1995 K. Bilby in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents vii. 180 A new generation of ‘third-wave’ ska bands (as well as a new hard-core, punk-influenced fusion dubbed ‘ska-core’).

2005 Uncut June 163/1 Their punk-informed country underpinnings evoke fond memories of fellow travellers like Green On Red.

1971 R. Vaughan & M. Lynch Brandywine's War 34 The new modern Army with the young punk-ass kids, they don't even know how to sojer, by God!

1977 Zigzag Aug. 12/2 This period of court harassment..went on until July 25th, when I was locked up for good by punk-ass Colombo in Detroit.

1993 Screamer Nov. 40/2 Comin' quickly up the street is the punk ass police.

1977 Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Disp. 11 Jan. 12/7 Punk chic is hand-ripped clothes and plastic garbage bags, coxcombs of bright orange hair (short), mascara, swastikas, chains, dog collars and safety pins through the earlobes or nostrils.

1977 Sniffin' Glue July 3 The sickest thing is the Zandra Rhodes ‘punk chic’ look.

2005 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 8 Sept. Ubiquitous Ramones T-shirts signify punk chic for celebrity and Joe Sixpack alike.

1974 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Mar. (Mag. section) 6/2 T. Rex. Band with punk-funk sound. Emerged with second coming of teeny bop, 1970.

1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 45/1 ‘The Stroke’ ranks with the sleaziest, sassiest, strangest, slyest hit singles of the eighties—punkfunk for real.

2004 Uncut Mar. 58/2 The more experimental wing of the post-punk brigade,..the abrasive, sky-strafing guitar stylings of PiL's Keith Levene, the Banshees, or the non-linear, noisenik punk-funk of Gang Of Four.

1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 17 Punk kid, a boy who begs and panhandles for yeggmen.

1935 Amer. Speech 10 19/2 Punk kid, an apprentice who works with any crook.

1939 C. R. Cooper Designs in Scarlet ii. 22 ‘We've got to kill 'em,’ said a cop bluntly, ‘or they'll kill us. Punk kids are dangerous.’

1977 New Yorker 23 May 32/2 When you were a nobody, a punk kid just starting out, didn't anyone ever lend you a helping hand?

1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. iii. 13/1 I really don't care if Albert Belle throws baseballs at photographers or chases punk kids on Halloween.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. iii. sig. I3^v This is a trauell'd Punque-Master . View more context for this quotation

1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Expostulatory Odes xvi. 52 If Empresses will punk-like kiss and drink.

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Feb. b3 Paul Drexler, director of the Art Dreco Institute and father of the 5-year-old punk-like art form.

2002 Nature Conservancy Spring 76/2 The hoatzin,..identifiable by the punklike spikes on its head.

1670 E. Brown in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1198 They cut them out into round pieces with an Instrument like a Shomakers Punk.

1844 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 23 Mar. 399/1 Chinese Punk in boxes.

1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 73 Before the ancestral tablets..incense was consumed, punk or joss-sticks.

1953 H. Miller Plexus ii. viii. 12 The third night we burned Chinese punk and incense.

1974 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 4 July 16/1 In the hot summer evenings you could smell smoking Chinese punk that kept the mosquitoes at bay.

2000 L. Doud This Body 158 The cloying smell of burning incense spread from punks that lined most of the booths' tables and shelves.

1852 Friend 24 July 359/3 This youth was returning home with ten chasers and a pack of fire crackers in his pocket, and, as he approached his residence, he placed a piece of lighted punk in the pocket containing the fire-works.

1869 T. B. Aldrich Story Bad Boy 92 The smaller sort of fireworks, such as pin-wheels, serpents, double-headers, and punk warranted not to go out.

1907 J. London Road 92 It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a ‘punk’.

1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xxiv. 129 She smelled the thick bit of punk which was given gratis with each purchase and which, when lit, smouldered for hours and was used to set off the firecrackers.

1976 R. Massey When I was Young ii. 25 The firecracker was still there and I bought it. The man gave me a stick of punk for free.

2005 J. Shields First Person, Twice Removed 69 He touched a burning punk to the powder on the ground and it instantly began to spit a stream of sparks.

1869 J. M. Hoppin Office & Work Christian Ministry ii. ii. 315 Better have the simplest..thoughts, clearly expressed, than what Carlyle calls ‘phosphorescent punk and nothingness’.

1900 G. Ade More Fables (1902) 212 Well, if they are Right, then I must be Wrong, but to me it is Punk.

1930 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 217/2 You can cut out any theories about yielding to sudden temptation, or punk of that sort.

1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock viii. 109 After all, except for the kids, presents seem to me punk.

1973 in Times 30 May 5/5 I don't like the family Stein. There is Gert, there is Ep, there is Ein. Gert's writings are punk, Ep's statues are junk, Nor can anyone understand Ein.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 46 As soon would you be tempted to pull out your meerschaum and punk-box in a cathedral.

a1940 J. Buchan Sick Heart River in Leithen Stories (1941) xv. 157 At the midday and evening meals he had a fire going at miraculous speed with his flint and steel and punk-box.

1981 P. O. Williams Dome in Forest v. 72 He stooped to the punk box, blew gently, and eventually drew a flame from the welling smoke.

1736 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 297 Stop the punk holes in the wall.

c1900 U.S. Forest Service Bull. No. 13. 63 in G. F. Schwarz Longleaf Pine in Virgin Forest (1907) ii. 24 A hole or diseased spot remains in the trunk which is infested by a large fungus of the genus Polyporus (punk holes, punk stools).

1838 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 34 174 And hence the origin of what the carpenters call punk knots, that so often appear in our most valuable white pine mast sticks.

1906 H. S. Graves Forest Mensuration 207 Usually decay manifests itself by some external sign, such as punk knots, white resin, unhealthy crown.., and so on.

1944 Forestry Terminol. (Soc. Amer. Foresters) 42/2 Swollen [knot], an open punk knot with surrounding tissues abnormally protruded as a result of attempted callusing; particularly common to Douglas fir affected with the red ring-rot fungus, Fomes pini.

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 152 Quercus aquatica... Possum Oak. Punk Oak... Probably not used except as fuel.

1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 300 It [sc. the water oak] is also called Spotted oak, Duck oak, Punk oak, and Possum oak.

1920 B. E. Jones Pract. Woodworker IV. 1570/2 The Water or Punk Oak (Q. aquatica) are more or less similar oaks.

1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 66 They..had attempted to set fire to his house with punk wood, which they shot at it lighted, fixed to the points of arrows.

1813 Newburyport (Mass.) Herald 11 June 4 Burn him with your lightening eyes, Till he like punk-wood ashes lies.

1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 427/2 She opened a flint-and-tinder box, and struck a spark into the punk-wood.

1903 S. E. White Forest 180 Sometimes a faint rounded shell..swelled above the level, to crumble to punkwood at the lightest touch of our feet.

1936 Amer. Home Feb. 58/2 After I was six feet above the hearth I built a small punkwood fire in the fireplace each day to help season the masonry.

2001 W. Keller Outdoor Survival Guide 48 I look for old rotten logs and will dig out some of the ‘punk wood’.

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail ii. 18 Supplies ran low unexpectedly; trees turned out ‘punk’.

1943 Appalachia Dec. 447 Stilly's axe went through a punk log and on into the calf of his leg.

1966–9 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 379/1 [When wood..is starting to decay inside..‘It's—inside.’] Punk.

1716 Merry Musician I. 197 We scorn to Punk, or to be drunk.

1920 E. Pound Let. 11 Sept. (1971) 157 You lay back, you let me have the whole stinking sweat of providing the mechanical means for letting through the new movement... Then you punk out, cursing me for not being in two places at once, and for ‘seeing no alternative to my own groove’.

1949 H. Ellson Duke 31 If..you're going to punk out it's going to be bad stuff for you.

1972 C. H. Fuller in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 145 Where was he? She couldn't believe he punked out and stayed away from school.

1992 Rolling Stone 10 Dec. 177/1 The label was cofounded by Rolling Stone Senior Writer Michael Goldberg, who at least had the nerve to sign the Groovies after the majors all punked out.

2005 E. V. Copage Between Father & Son 57 Homey here got scared and almost punked out.

1888 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 26 Sept. Evidently, Mr. Harrison goes on the assumption that any kind of silly and absurd falsehood can be ‘punked’ down the throats of the people of this country.

1899 Los Angeles Times 7 Apr. 16/1 Charged with assault to murder, for having punked a couple of bullets into the person of Pasqual Ravino last Sunday night.

1950 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 2/7 Mrs. Ruth Rayl appeared at the salesroom, punked down two 1,000 ruble notes and demanded the car.

1958 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 3 June 7/2 The Senators scored an unearned run in the tenth for a 2-1 decision. That dropped Harchman's record to 5-4 and punked the Orioles back into the cellar.