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skate punk

skate punk is the alternative form of skatepunk.

Meaning of skatepunk

Noun

skatepunk (countable and uncountable, plural skatepunks)

  1. (uncountable) A fast, intense, melodic form of hardcore punk music, associated with skateboarding culture.
    • Similar to how Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid brought the early 90s punk revival to the top of alternative rock, blink-182 took skate-punk to the masses in 1999 with Enema of the State.2021, Mike Damante, Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise, Di Angelo Publications, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    skatecore
  2. (countable) A member of the skateboarding subculture that listens to punk music.
    • Nothing was moving out there except falling snow, a Finch bus and insufficiently dressed skatepunks.2008, Rebecca Rosenblum, Once, page 113

Forms of skate punk

pluralskate punks

Questions about skate punk

What is skate punk the alternative form of?
Skate punk is the alternative form of skatepunk.

Words near skate punk in the dictionary

  1. skate on thin ice
  2. skate one's lane
  3. skate over
  4. skate park
  5. skate parks
  6. skate punk
  7. skate punks
  8. skate rat
  9. skate skiing
  10. skate-around
  11. skate-arounds

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