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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Movement of the young and outrageous which began in pop music, as punk rock, and moved into fashion. The first punk groups were deliberately amateurish bands in the USA in the 1960s. Punk resurfaced more energetically in Britain in the late 1970s, with groups such as the Sex Pistols. The accompanying style in clothes was described in 1977 as 'short ragged hair with short, ragged leather jackets', but it evolved in the 1980s into much more elaborate plumage, with clothes suggesting bondage and grotesquely spiked and coloured hairdos. The name derives not from the old English word for a prostitute but from an American term for anything rotten and worthless (originally rotten wood from a tree).
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