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prepunk en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + punk.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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:

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