neopunk

plural neopunks

1. attributiveA 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

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   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

   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

2. A proponent of such a style or subculture.