1. steampunk - Noun
2. steampunk - Verb
(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
(countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.
(countable, cosplay) A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
steampunk (third-person singular simple present steampunks, present participle steampunking, simple past and past participle steampunked)
(transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.
Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. Charles Stross
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out. Paul Di Filippo
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone. M. K. Hobson
A breathless mess of steampunk, underground comics, slapstick, farce, historical romance, and top hats, all duct-taped to a restless skeleton of fantasy cinema, has its precisely placed thumbs in pretty much every proverbial pie. Source: Internet
During the 2010-11 Time Machine Tour Peart used a new DW kit which was outfitted with copper-plated hardware and time machine designs to match the tour's steampunk themes. Source: Internet
And as a little bit of a palate cleanser between hearty courses of space opera, how about The Calderan Problem, the most recent entry in my swashbuckling steampunk series Free-Wrench? Source: Internet