cyberpunk
nounEtymology
From cyber- + -punk, coined by as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.
Definitions
A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and…
A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^([sic]), Bruce Sterling […]
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A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as…
A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.
- Indeed, 'Mindphaser' (and Tactical Neural Implant more generally) represents a high point of cyberpunk in the industrial music scene.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cyberpunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA