unc
/ʌŋk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Old; no longer versed in or relevant to current youth culture.
noun
A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated manner.
adj
name
Initialism of Uniform Naming Convention, a syntax to describe the location of a network resource.
name
Initialism of University of North Carolina.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Those qualities make it more accessible to a range of people who struggle to keep up in faster games while maintaining a skill range in other disciplines: timing, positioning, and perception. It's fairly easy to track targets, but you're still rewarded for nailing headshots, taking the high ground, and utilizing shell abilities. Does that make Marathon an unc game? You decide, but as a freshly minted literal uncle, it does speak to me."
- "What the heck is an unc game? It didn’t take me long to discover that “unc” (short for uncle) is the latest semi-disparaging gen Z name for anyone over about 30. Further back, it originated as AAVE slang. “Uncslop” refers to the implicitly terrible games beloved by this older generation of players; basically anything made in the 1990s or 2000s, from Knights of the Old Republic to World of Warcraft. An unc game, then, is a game predominantly played by millennials (and older) – and Marathon is one of them. A week or so later, I read Emanuel Maiberg’s article for 404 Media, which dug into the game’s unc credentials."
- "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."
- "Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc."
- "Now he’s [Hasan Piker] thirty-three—so old, in streamer years, that his fans call him “unc.”"