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unpunk

unpunk adjective: not punk.

Adjective

unpunk (comparative more unpunk, superlative most unpunk)

  1. Not punk.
    • They embrace acoustic guitar and shakers, plus unpunk gadgetry like looping pedals[…]2010 October, SPIN, page 80
    • Punk rock […] exhibits its own peculiar—to use an expensive and totally unpunk term—“historicity.”2011, Stephen Duncombe, Maxwell Tremblay, White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

Forms of unpunk

comparativemore unpunk
superlativemost unpunk

Origin of unpunk

From un- + punk.

Questions about unpunk

What does unpunk mean?
Unpunk means not punk.
What part of speech is unpunk?
Unpunk is an adjective.

Words near unpunk in the dictionary

  1. unpunishing
  2. unpunishingly
  3. unpunishment
  4. unpunisht
  5. unpunitive
  6. unpunk
  7. unpupylated
  8. unpurchasability
  9. unpurchasable
  10. unpurchaseable
  11. unpurchased

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