Meanings
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of African-American Vernacular English.
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What the heck is an unc game? It didn’t take me long to discover that “unc” (short for uncle) is the latest semi-disparaging gen Z name for anyone over about 30. Further back, it originated as AAVE slang. “Uncslop” refers to the implicitly terrible games beloved by this older generation of players; basically anything made in the 1990s or 2000s, from Knights of the Old Republic to World of Warcraft. An unc game, then, is a game predominantly played by millennials (and older) – and Marathon is one of them. A week or so later, I read Emanuel Maiberg’s article for 404 Media, which dug into the game’s unc credentials.
2026 April 15, Keza MacDonald, The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
AAVE. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AAVE
“AAVE.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AAVE. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “AAVE,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AAVE.
Source: AAVE on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.