neopunk

English

Etymology

neo- +‎ punk

Noun

neopunk (plural neopunks)

  1. (chiefly attributive) A more recent style or subculture descended from punk.
    • 1999, Walt Mueller, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, page 118:
      Today's legion of neopunk bands play music marked by three chords and simple melodies. They have taken the genre into the mainstream.
    • 2010, Mandy Merck; Stella Sandford, Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex, page 256:
      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 […]
  2. A proponent of such a style or subculture.
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