spycore

S1P3Y4C3O1R1E1

noun

A fashion and design aesthetic inspired by Cold War spy movies, especially James Bond.

Scrabble 14
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounspycore (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA fashion and design aesthetic inspired by Cold War spy movies, especially James Bond.

    surely mall clothes make for superb spycore

    2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED

Origin

From spy + -core.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

corpsey
Cite this entry
APA

spycore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spycore

MLA

“spycore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spycore. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spycore,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spycore.

Source: spycore on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.