A youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s

Usage examples of punks.

The street punks had sent people around to flank the Rebels from the east.

The move caught the punks and the creepies by surprise and many died with shock written on their dirty faces.

The teenage black punks, twisted by lives of poverty and suffering in the well-intentioned welfare state, twisted again by the circulated agit-prop of the Black Muslims and the Death's Angels, became the roving shock troops of race war by random terror.

Working their way past two old dumpsters, they both bellied down on the littered concrete as two street punks ran past their position and into the building across the alley.

The street punks were slammed back against a wall as the slugs tore the life from them.

Never again would they allow thugs and punks and outlaws to overwhelm them.

You arm us, and no bunch of thugs and punks will ever again overrun us.

They never let on to the street punks that they had contingency plans or what those plans entailed.

As two punks continued hacking at the body, more of them rushed into the other rooms of the sorority house.

Snapping the lightweight bolt with a kick, the punks saw two forms in two beds.

If you are patient, I'm sure the newspapers will carry every detail of the investigation, arrest and eventual acquittal of all the low-life scum punks involved.

Ignoring the crosswalk's signal, the punks strolled in front of the waiting cars.

But these punks, these gangs made Charlie and his little girls look like Bo Peep and the sheep.

Those punks just ripped the house up with pistols and those automatic rifles.

He recruited the punks, his organization trained them, and he gave them the rifle.