steam punk,
- a variation of steampunk.
Example Sentences
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The appearance of flourishes such as steam-punk goggles and snoods added to the sense of disorientation.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2020
“Between my hair and that hat, I don’t think nobody’s gonna take us too serious,” Parton cracked, poking fun at Perry’s towering, steam-punk bowler she’s fond of wearing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2019
For Mad Max, Theron decided her character, Imperator Furiosa, needed a buzz cut to go with her steam-punk prosthetic arm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2016
Behind Ive, at a distance that suggested self-exile, was Steve Wozniak, who, in 1976, co-founded Apple with Jobs, and who was wearing a black steam-punk watch the size of an ashtray.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
Tolkien fought at the Somme, and the mechanized butchery he encountered in the trenches framing the steam-punk dystopia of Mordor—as did the industrial ruination, as Tolkien perceived it, of England’s Black Country, near Birmingham.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013
