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Punk Rock 

A genre of music that has hard, fast, and rough music and lyrics that attack the popular culture and government. Very anti-establishment. Famous true punk bands are The Clash, Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Black Flag, and The Buzzcocks. Newer punk bands, most famous Green Day and Bowling for Soup, have a lighter tone, but is still considered punk over other music.

Pop-punk is a genre that combines the same types of lyrics and combines it with softer and lighter music. Blink-182, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, and Sum 41 are this genres pioneers and famous bands.

Generally, punk rock is one of the biggest categories of rock music but has never been fully considered mainstream since its creation in the 70s in the U.S. and England. 924 Gilman Street in the East Bay is a famous club where many underground bands play.
The Clash is a famous punk rock band. currently, the most famous punk band is probably Green Day.
Punk Rock by The Clash 72 February 23, 2010
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rock the boat

v. to get something going (to get the party started)
"Yeah can we rock the boat or something? This is taking forever!"
rock the boat by dougie3 July 3, 2007
Rock always has a guitar, a bass, drums, and kick ass deep lyrics. other instruments, including the piano, violin, and flute may be added.

In the 60's and 70's, rock was starting to form different genres there was the un-nameable genre from the likes of queen/led zepplin/pink floyd, the beatles, and jimmy hendrix.

In the 80's, metal. these genres were typically louder and darker, very fast paced and hard. Now days, this is the only thing non-rock fans think of when they think of rock and make fun of it. Metallica is a very popular band from this time.

In the 90's Rock broke into many more genres, including punk, emo, alternative, industrial, and many more. Many older rock fans who can't get their heads out of their asses feel this is where rock went bad. Rock never went bad; the mainstream media made anything remotely loud that included instruments be called rock and played it on the radio making it the flagship for rock, which it isn't. Nirvana Nickleback became the "radio rock" and sucks.

In present times, there are many uneducated posers who see rock as "stupid", "loud", and" too much screaming" which is only screamo rock. Those people listen to shitty rap music and don't know what they're talking about. Many older fans of rock think rock nowadays is bad, which isn't the case. It's different and it's changed, but it's not bad. If rock didn't change, we'd be listening to the same thing forever and rock would disappear.
Rock fan's friend: hey man, i wanted to get into rock because i realized how stupid rap is. any suggestions?

Rock fan:Sure! good for you!
here's my list, buddy:
AFI
Muse
System of a down
billy talent
Metallica
Atreyu
Motion city soundtrack
hellogoodbye
the beatles
led zepplin
pink floyd
nirvana
avenged sevenfold
and the list goes on.....
Rock by eddieslice March 9, 2010

rockstar 

verb - to blow someone off as if you are too important for them, like a rockstar
Dave was supposed to meet us at the club, but, as usual, he rockstarred us and didn't show.
rockstar by Larry Stone July 6, 2004

butt rock 

Butt Rock, as opposed to the above definitions, refers to bands (primarily from the 1990's to present) that use their voice in a twangy deep fashion that could only be described as coming from the butt. They can be on top of many types of music, but usually are made up of simple clean power chords. ex. Creed, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Seether, Three Doors Down, Pearl Jam, Lifehouse, etc...
Did you hear that crappy butt rock band that tried to sound like Creed?
butt rock by Brandon Schuk December 12, 2006

rock out with my cock out 

Dude who gets psycho stoned and/or drunk, thinks he's a rock star, and acts like an assclown.
Adan was wasted at the IU game and said, "I'm gonna rock out with my cock out" before he fondled his friends' wives and urinated in their cars.

Rickshaw 

n. a person who is constantly making bad choices in life, especially romantically, and then blames these bad decisions on an absentee father. this person should, however, have learned from the mistakes he/she has made in the past, and should, by this point, take responsibility for how his/her life has turned out.
"man, that's the fifth boyfriend in a row that she's had that has abused her and cheated on her. she is such a rickshaw."
Rickshaw by magellon February 14, 2009