unk
unk is the alternative form of unc.
Meaning of unc
Noun (1)
unc (plural uncs)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Proper noun (1) capitalized: UNK
UNK
- Initialism of University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Unk
Unk
- A short river in western Shropshire, England, that joins the River Clun at the town of Clun.
Forms of unk
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Questions about unk
- What does unk mean?
- Unk means a short river in western Shropshire, England, that joins the River Clun at the town of Clun.
- What is unk the alternative form of?
- Unk is the alternative form of unc.
- What part of speech is unk?
- Unk is a proper noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unk (page history and authors); UNK (page history and authors); Unk (page history and authors); unc (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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