Unc
adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Clipping of uncle. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
- 2 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."
- 3 An older male relative. Internet
"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."
- 4 An older male relative.; Any older man, especially middle-aged. Internet, broadly
"Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc."
- 1 Abbreviation of uncirculated. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
- 1 Initialism of Uniform Naming Convention, a syntax to describe the location of a network resource. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"\\BobsComputer\Shared\ColourLaser200 is the UNC path to Bob's printer."
- 2 Initialism of University of North Carolina. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 Initialism of United Nations Command. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 Initialism of Unified Coarse (formerly an initialism of Unified National Coarse), a screw thread classification within the Unified Thread Standard. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Clipping of uncle.
Clipping of uncoordinated.
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