steampunk
Speech parts
1. steampunk - Noun
2. steampunk - Verb
Meaning
(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.
Examples
Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?