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cyber | cyberpunk |

As an adjective cyber

is pertaining to the internet;.

As a verb cyber

is (slang) to engage in cybersex.

As a noun cyberpunk is

(science fiction|uncountable) a subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality.

cyber

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to the Internet;
  • (informal) Cybergoth.
  • * 1998 , Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
    • She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
  • * 2007 , Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
    • ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber , and rock.
  • * 2007 , Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture
    • No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.

    Derived terms

    * noncyber

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To engage in cybersex.
    • Wanna cyber ?

    See also

    * cyber- *

    Anagrams

    *

    cyberpunk

    English

    (wikipedia cyberpunk)

    Noun

  • (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality.
  • (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
    • The film ''The Matrix'' redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
  • (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
  • * 1989 , SPIN magazine (volume 4, number 10, January 1989, page 50)

    • Derived terms

    * -punk ----