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sailpunk

sailpunk noun: a subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.

Noun

sailpunk (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.
    • Don't forget about chain - great for shredding your target's rigging and not half bad as an antipersonnel round too. (Well, if you're in a "SailPunk" setting it's useful, anyway... Arrr, matey; scupper me wi' a handspike if it ain't so.)1996 April 27, Carl Perkins <carl@gergo.tamu.edu>, “Re: Barriers”, in rec.games.frp.cyber (Usenet), message-ID <f2ab6ed35a112b8d>
    • I notice also that on paper are available nifty and *original* places for live sailpunk RPG'ing but I fear that RN and USN will really frown at the idea of a bunch of live role-players fooling aboard HMS Victory and USS Constitution respectively...2010 April 25, dott.Piergiorgio <dott.PiergiorgioNIHON@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it>, “Re: Steampunk Martians”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), message-ID <854ef539444badc6>

Origin of sailpunk

From sail + -punk.

Questions about sailpunk

What does sailpunk mean?
Sailpunk means a subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.
What part of speech is sailpunk?
Sailpunk is a noun.

Words near sailpunk in the dictionary

  1. sailplaned
  2. sailplaner
  3. sailplaners
  4. sailplanes
  5. sailplaning
  6. sailpunk
  7. sailray
  8. sailrays
  9. sailroom
  10. sailrooms
  11. sails

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