punked
SayPUNGKT/pʌŋkt/
- 1Past tense and past participle of punk.
The band punked the old folk song, speeding it up and burying it in distorted guitar.
He talked big all week but punked out the moment the fight started.
Note
Most of the verb's meanings are slang, and they range widely enough to need care. Someone who got punked was pranked; someone who punked out gave up or backed down; a band that punked a folk song remade it in the style of the punk movement. One slang use names a sexual assault, so where the meaning could be misread, pranked or remade is the safer word.
punked is a form of punk
punk, verb: To play a prank or practical joke on someone. Full entry
- Spelling
- punk → punked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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