Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unquote

Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.

(transitive, computing) To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form.

Not quoted on the stock exchange. / Not enclosed in quotation marks. / Not having been quoted; whose words have not been repeated by others.

Not quotable; that cannot be quoted.

In an unquotable way.

present participle of unquote

(idiomatic) Emphasizes the following, or sometimes preceding, word or phrase for irony or marks it as not the normal sense of the term. Used almost exclusively in spoken language. In written language, quotation marks would be used instead.

Used in spoken language to delimit a quotation in the same function as quotation marks.