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uncs

uncs is the plural of unc.

Meaning of unc

Noun (1)

unc (plural uncs)

  1. (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.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
    1. (Internet, broadly) Any older man, especially middle-aged.
      • Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2024

Noun (2)

unc (plural uncs)

  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.1979, David Hirsh et al., Eucaryotic gene regulation

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Noun

uncs (plural uncs)

  1. (colloquial) uncle (especially one's own uncle)
    • Hey, Uncs, how's it going?

Forms of uncs

pluraluncs

Questions about uncs

What does uncs mean?
Uncs means uncle (especially one's own uncle).
What is uncs the plural of?
Uncs is the plural of unc.
What part of speech is uncs?
Uncs is a noun.
What is the plural of uncs?
The plural of uncs is uncs.

Words near uncs in the dictionary

  1. uncrystallizable
  2. uncrystallize
  3. uncrystallized
  4. uncrystallizes
  5. uncrystallizing
  6. uncs
  7. uncslop
  8. unct
  9. UNCTAD
  10. uncted
  11. uncting

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