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prepunk

prepunk adjective: prior to the punk movement.

Adjective

prepunk (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the punk movement.
    • In their chugging, off-key tunefulness they're a lot like those ever-searching, prepunk hippie monoliths the Grateful Dead, but I swear, there are moments on Huevos when they're also a dead ringer for early ZZ Top.1988 May 20, Franklin Soults, “Meat Puppets”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016

Forms of prepunk

alternative formpre-punk

Origin of prepunk

From pre- + punk.

Questions about prepunk

What does prepunk mean?
Prepunk means prior to the punk movement.
What part of speech is prepunk?
Prepunk is an adjective.

Words near prepunk in the dictionary

  1. prepunish
  2. prepunished
  3. prepunishes
  4. prepunishing
  5. prepunishment
  6. prepunk
  7. prepupa
  8. prepupae
  9. prepupal
  10. prepuparial
  11. prepupation

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