prepunk

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adjective

Prior to the punk movement.

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Meanings

adjectiveprepunk (not comparable)

alternative pre-punk

  1. not comparablePrior 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

Origin

From pre- + punk.

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Cite this entry
APA

prepunk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepunk

MLA

“prepunk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepunk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prepunk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prepunk.

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