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unc¹

  • /ʌŋk/

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adjective more unc · most unc · unk

  1. Internet Old; no longer versed in or relevant to current youth culture. Millennials’ very existence has become so embarrassing to Gen Z-ers that they’ve coined a phrase for it: “millennial cringe.” […] We are now unc and frequently also washed.

noun uncs · unk

  1. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial, neologism Clipping of uncle
  2. Internet An older male relative. Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.
  3. Internet, broadly Any older man, especially middle-aged. Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.

Similar: unkie, unky

unc²

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Clipping of uncoordinated.

noun uncs · unk

  1. A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated manner. The Bristol chromosome I was marked with mutations in two widely spaced genes, dpy-5 (e61 ) and unc-54 (el 90). A strain homozygous for these markers is dumpy and uncoordinated.

UNC³

adjective

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of uncirculated all banknotes are in UNC condition except couple of them. those that are not in UNC condition are marked.

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Uniform Naming Convention, a syntax to describe the location of a network resource. \\BobsComputer\Shared\ColourLaser200 is the UNC path to Bob's printer.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of University of North Carolina
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of United Nations Command
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Unified Coarse (formerly an initialism of Unified National Coarse), a screw thread classification within the Unified Thread Standard.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: uncle, yeah, ch, leadership, command, leanness, shc, billy, operon, possum, tonton, uncs, unca, nuncle, uncley, co-uncle

noun

Similar: unkie, unky

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adj uncirculated

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@misc{unc_2026,
  title = {unc},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}