Punk vs Pop - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between punk and pop

is that punk is punk rock while pop is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert.

punk

English

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from the application of the sense

Noun

(obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtezan.

* , V.i.

My lord, she may be a punk ; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.

* 1663 : .

And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion, as for punk .

(countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison.

Because he was so weak, Vinny soon became Tony's punk .

* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 15:

A punk , if you want it in plain English, is a boy with smooth skin who takes the place of a woman in a jailbird's love life.

(countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.

(countable) Any worthless person.

* 1971 ,

I know what you're thinking, punk'. You're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? / Well, do ya, ' punk ?

(uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.

(uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.

(countable, sometimes as informal plural punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to that music, a punk rocker.

Usage notes

The most common use of the term is in the term punk rock (for a certain social and musical movement). In the UK, this is the only common usage.

Adjective

(er)

Of, from, or resembling the subculture.

''You look very punk with your t-shirt, piercing and chains.

Verb

(en verb)

To pimp.

Tony punked-out Vinny when he was low on smokes.

To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.

Ricky punked his new cell-mates.

To prank.

I got expelled when I punked the principal.

To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.

Jimmy was going to help me with the prank, but he punked (out) at the last minute.

Usage notes

The relatively tame 21st century usage of punk'' to mean "prank" was popularized by the American television show . Until as recently as the late 20th century, ''punk'' still connoted rape or submitting to anal rape (''punk-out''). The second use of the term ''punk-out'' is now comparable to acting like a ''pussy and mildly implies submissive behavior in general.

Synonyms

* see

Derived terms

* cyberpunk * post-punk * protopunk * punk music * punk rock * punkabilly * punker * punkette * punkish * punkling * punkster * punky * ska punk

Etymology 2

Perhaps a reduction of Lenape Talking Dictionary'', punkw.Robert K. Barnhart (editor), ''The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology'' (H. W. Wilson, 1988), page 864: "Probably borrowed from Algonquian (Delaware) ''ponk , literally, living ashes."

Noun

(uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.

* 1899 , H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians , page 271:

On one occasion a venerable old Indian man, who, in order to light his pipe, was trying to catch a spark upon a piece of punk struck from his flint and steel; ...

* 1922 , Harry Ignatius Marshall, The Karen People of Burma , page 61:

The oil is mixed with bits of dry wood or punk and moulded into sticks about a cubit long and an inch in diameter by putting it into joints of small bamboo.

* 2001 , William W. Johnstone, War of the Mountain Man , page 116:

He made him a little smoldering pocket of punk to light the fuses and waited.

(countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.

* 1907 , Jack London, The Road , [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14658]:

On the end a coal of fire slowly smouldered. It would last for hours, and my cell-mate called it a "punk ."

* 1994 , Ashland Price, Viking Tempest , page 353:

Then, without another word, he rose and left the shelter, apparently in order to light the vessel's wick with a punk from the dying campfire.

* 2004 , Shawn Shiflett, Hidden Place , page 221:

He raised the cylinder high in the air with his bare hand, used a punk to light the fuse, and KABOOM !

References

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pop

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.

Noun

(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:

The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .

A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).

(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.

(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.

* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:

A bird, the European redwing.

(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.

Synonyms

* (soda pop) see the list at (m)

Derived terms

: (see below)

Verb

(popp)

(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:

The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.

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The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.

To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.

To hit (something or someone).

(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.

(label) To ejaculate.

(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.

* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

(label) To place (something) (somewhere).

* Milton

He popped a paper into his hand.

To swallow (a tablet of a drug).

* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :

We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.

To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.

* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :

Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...

* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :

The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...

To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.

* Shakespeare

He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

* Jonathan Swift

a trick of popping up and down every moment

To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.

To stand out, to be visually distinctive.

She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .