decopunk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subset of the dieselpunk science fiction genre and aesthetic that incorporates Art Deco elements and other aspects of the technology, culture, and fashion of the 1920s-1930s.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin."
- "Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own."
- "Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally."