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neopunk en · NOUN

Etymology

From neo- + punk.

Meanings

1. (attributive) A more recent style or subculture descended from punk.
   • Today's legion of neopunk bands play music marked by three chords and simple melodies. They have taken the genre into the mainstream. 1999, Walt Mueller, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, page 118:
   • The temporal incongruity of her body suggested that she simply did not identify with what I would have taken to be her own emergent peer culture of neopunk polymorphs, Queer Nationals, Riot Grrrls, and so on […] 2010, Mandy Merck, Stella Sandford, Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex, page 256:
   • I want to thank Daniel Emberley for his design for my piece "The New Harmony" (GCN, March 23). I liked the asymmetry, the neo-punk block graphics, and the way the illustrations were spaced. 1985 April 13, Scott Tucker, “Praise for the Designer”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
2. A proponent of such a style or subculture.

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