Usually means: Victorian era-inspired futuristic technology aesthetics.
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  1. steampunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. steampunk: Merriam-Webster
  3. steampunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. steampunk: The Word Spy
  5. Steampunk, steampunk: Wordnik
  6. steampunk: Wiktionary
  7. steampunk: Dictionary.com
  8. Steampunk (anthology), Steampunk (comics), Steampunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (steampunk)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.
noun:  (countable, cosplay) A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
verb:  (transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.

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