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The Word on The Streets The Canonical Glossary of Slang for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. Now with OVER 900 Entries!. Click here to visit the first new entry in the glossary (located right after the red NEW ENTRY line.) Then click on the 'next new entry' tag to advance to the next entry. Last updated 2 June 2001 Copyright © 1994-2001 by Please take a moment to read the for this material. This page has been accessed times since 16 July, 1996. 2020 Hindsight: ph. The wise act of watching your back.
1) The year 2000. 2) the 21st century.
(Net.) Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web message '404, URL Not Found,' meaning that the document you've tried to access can't be located. 'Don't bother asking him. He's 404, man.' Pronounced 'Five Oh'. Archaic term used as a generic reference to.
(From the old TV series 'Hawaii Five-Oh'.) Back to alphabetical. (Mil.) A small (10-12 men) team of elite troops (Green Berets, Special Forces, etc.) used for advanced missions.
1) An expert in the field. 2) Friend, buddy, pal. The very best. Ace of Spades: ph. (Solo) Term for death in combat.
To 'draw the ace' is to die in battle. 'Drawing the ace' is a short-hand expression with the same meaning. (Med.) Advanced Cardiac Life Support. Aesthetics: n.
Simple cosmetic surgery. (LEO) Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
An agglomeration of farms with one central managment complex. Artificial Intelligence. A computer or network-based entity, originally designed to solve complex problems, that has achieved self-awareness. Usually under the control of a, but not always. (See.) Airfilm: n. Shorthand term for an narrow air-cushion train. Air Guitar: ph.
(Solo) The act of firing an assault rifle from the hip and, usually, not hitting a single intended target. Air Rappel: ph. The act of dropping a long (usually fatal) distance without the benefit of a rappeling rope and harness. (Aq.) Anything fast-moving, esp. Derogatory grounder term for someone who lives in space (a highrider). Alpha Bravo: ph.
(Mil./Solo) Ambush, Alpha Geek: ph. The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group.
'Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here.' (Med.) Advanced Life Support. (Rig.) Debris that falls from the sky whenever an aircraft explodes or collides with another aircraft. Typically derogatory. Amped Out: ph. Fatigue after being under the influence of amphetamines and certain combat drugs. A benefactor, especially an unknown one.
Angry Fruit Salad: ph. (Net) An interface with too many colors.
AniMan, AniMen: n. Derogatory term for a body-sculpted individual who resembles an animal form. Ant Farm: ph. Huge multiscreen theater complexes with glass facades, often found near American malls. Also called gigaplexes. Pronunciation of the acronym APTR (Augmented Program Trained Reflex.) (AKA skillsoft or reflex chip.) This type of chip provides new reflex-based skills for the user. Arc, Arco: n.
A self-contained living environment, usually pyramidal or domed. May belong to a corporation, government agency, or non-profit organization. Arc Light: n. (Mil.) originally the code name for B-52 bombers strikes along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border during the Vietnam war, now a reference to any operation involving massive amounts of high explosive and general destruction over a wide area. The original operations shook the earth up to ten miles away from the target area. (Mil.) Artillery.
Attoparsec: n. (Net) About 3.1 centimeters. Pronounced 'Aye-Vee,' shorthand term for a variety of hover-vans.
(Rock.) An electric or SynthGuitar. Back to alphabetical. Pronounced 'Bee-Aye,' shorthand for either Bad-Ass. (Viet.) Vietnamese married woman; used as a title, like 'Mrs.' (Viet.) Bastardized Vietnamese for 'To shoot.' 'Back to the Taxpayers': ph. (Rig.) Where you send a wrecked aircraft/vehicle.
Back Door: ph. (Net) A hole in a systems security, that when properly utilized, grants an unauthorized user easy access. Bacon-in-the-Pan: n. (Thr.) When you wipe out badly on a ramp and slide back down to the bottom. Vietnamese for 'Doctor'; also used to refer to medic in the U.S. (Med.) Bacteria Factory.
Commercial use of gene-tailored bacteria to produce some substance/material (Insulin, Kevlar, et.al.) cheaply and in large quantity. Police or corporate security. Bagged and Tagged: ph. To lightly strike someone else in a playful manner. To depart with alacrity.
(Jap.) Stupid. (Pointing at someone and saying 'baka' is like telling them they're an idiot.) Bakebrain: n. General purpose derogatory term indicating someone with limited or damage mental faculties (frequently due to excessive use of neural cyberware.) (AKA asshole, idiot, jerk, moron.) Ballast: n. (Aq.) Something of particular importance, as in 'That is serious ballast.' A gang drug dealer.
Ballerina: n. A reflex boosted female assassin in the employ of a major. Ballistic Counselling: ph. To adjust the attitude of a malcontent who is within range through the use of a firearm or other projectile launcher. (Media) What game- and talk-show staffers call someone who freezes in front of the camera (like a deer caught in headlights.) Bamf: v.
From old X-Men comics, a notional sound made by a person/object teleporting into or out of the vicinity. Often used to refer to a dramatic entrance or exit.
'Let's bamf outta here!' ) Bang a Left/Right: ph. (GoGang) Make a sudden left or right turn, usually while driving. Banging: adj. (Brit.) Outstanding, excellent.
('That was simply banging, old!' ) Bare Metal: ph. (Net) A computer with no programs, not even an OS. Also, what you reach after circumventing the most basic programs on a computer.
Bark at the Ants/Cockroaches/etc.: ph. Either 'Big Brother' or 'Boys in Black.' Bio-Computer Interface. (LEO) Breaking and Entering. Beaded Up: ph. (Rig.) Worried or excited. A scientist or researcher.
Usually derogatory. (Net) To transfer your apparent location, or the apparent location of something else, without moving you (or it) through the intervening space. Beehive Round/Shell: n. (Mil.) An explosive artillery shell which delivers thousands of small, directed flechettes instead of shrapnel.
Also known as 'Cannister Shot' or 'APERS' (Anti-PERSonnel) rounds. Beige Toaster: ph. (Net) A computer and monitor in one combination unit. Heavy and ugly. Bells & Whistles: ph.
(Net) Useless add-ons. (Crim.) A Police robo-hound. An out-of-towner. Any combat drug, particularly Black Lace. (AKA freakers.) Beta Software: ph.
(Net) Software that hasn't been fully tested for use. Usually not very reliable.
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A skater chick; female. (Viet.) 'I understand.' (Vulgar) Modern equivalent of the archaic 'Bimbo'.
Big Dive: ph. (Aq.) To exceed maximum safe dive depth. Big Iron: ph. (Net) Large, heavy, fast mainframe computers. Big (color) Wall: ph. (Net) Any set of instruction manuals so large they take up more than ten feet of shelf space. (Net) Originally the emergency shut off switch for a mainframe, now refers to any switch that shuts off an entire system.
Big Room, the: ph. (Net.) Hacker-speak for the outdoors. It's that place with a blue (well, OK, grey) ceiling you see if you go outside during the day and look up. Bingo Fuel: ph. (Rig.) The point at which your vehicle has only enough fuel left to return to base. Bio-break: ph. (Tech/Net) Euphemism for using the toilet.
A full-body conversion cyborg. 1) Cybernetic software chips that incorporate biological components in their construction.
Thought to be superior in performance to purely artificial chips. 2) Generic term for any cyber-data chip which plugs into a neural processor to provide new skills or knowledge (also known as microsofts and skillsofts.) Bit-flip: v. (Net) A 180-degree change in behavior or personality. Slang term for a hacker or 'nerdy' computer enthusiast. Biting Angle: ph. (Mil./LEO/Solo) Angle at which a projectile (usually a bullet) stikes a target, as it affects optimal penetration.
(An ideal angle is perpendicular to the surface of the impact site.) Snipers may not take shots when the biting angle is poor, as the chances of successful penetration are low and ricochet are high. Bit Jockey: ph. (Net) All the useless rubble on the Net one has to plow through to get to the rich information ore. Bitty Box: ph. A primitive, underpowered, or generally useless computer or other electronic device.
The final frontier. Where no man. Well, you get the idea. (Corp) An illegal operative. Blackfish: n. (Aq.) Any Black Ops member. Black Ice: n.
Illegal countermeasure software which causes physical harm or death to an intruder. A medical facility which specializes in the implant of illegal or unregistered cyberware.
Black Snake: n. (Thr.) Tar lines on the street. 1) A professional soldier or fighter, specializing in edged weapons.
2) A surgeon or doctor. An individual without a. Blanket Party: n. Throwing a blanket over someone's head before kicking their ass so they can't identify you later. Blink, blink?: ph. (Corp) A general expression of confusion. (Corp) A cartel composed of Orbital concerns with similar capabilities and interests, i.e., an Aerospace Bloc, a Pharmaceutical Bloc, etc.
Blood Money: ph. Income from the illegal sale of organs to a body bank. (Rig.) Afterburner. Blowing Code: ph.
(Net) Hacker term for programming. Blowing Your Buffer: ph. Losing one's train of thought. Occurs when the person you're speaking with won't let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train of thought gets derailed. 'Damn, I just blew my buffer!' Blown Mind: ph.
(Med.) Gunshot wound to the head. (Med.) Basic Life Support.
Blue Load: ph. (Mil.) Practice ammo.
Blue Moon: ph. An honest police officer.
(So rare, they only appear 'once in a blue moon.' ) Blue-on-Blue: ph. (Mil.) 'Friendly fire' casualties. (Net) The mythical stuff that makes ICs work. If released from the chip, it stops working. (Net) From 'Boa Constrictor', a really thick cable that seems to have a life of its own, especially when you try to uncoil it. (Aq.) Any underwater vehicle.: ph.
(Net) A really heavy peice of dead or useless hardware. Body Bank: n. A storage facility for transplant organs. Many are illegal and actively 'recruit' new merchandise. Body Nazis: ph. Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work obsessively. Body Sculpt: n.
The process of having most or all of ones body cosmetically and/or structurally reconfigured with the use of vat-grown tissue and advanced plastic surgery techniques. Boo-coo: adj. (Mil.) Bastardized French, from 'Beaucoup,' meaning 'much' or 'many'. Boom-boom: ph. (Mil.) To have sex. (Rig.) 1) Loud, raucous partying ('we were booming last night'); 2) Fast, exciting flying ('we went booming through the Grand Canyon.' ) Booster: n.
Any gang member who displays a strong affinity for cyberware. (Med.) Urine with blood in it. Border Rats: ph. (LEO) DEA and/or Customs agents who work the U.S./Mexico border. Excessive use of cybernetic body modifications. (Jap.) Motorcycle and hot-rod gangs; a prime source of Yakuza recuits. (Net) Small programs designed to perform automated tasks in the net, and generally act as meat surrogates.
'Bots can be beneficial or malicious. Bottom feeder: ph.
A low life, one who has yet to achieve, a 'wannabe,' a social outcast. Bourgie, Bourgy: adj.
Common or low-class (from bourgeoisie.) Box, the: n. (Brit.) The or computer. Arasaka security personnel. (Med.) Blood Pressure. Brain Dump: ph. (Net) From core dump, to tell someone everything you know. Brain Housing Group: ph.
(Rig.) Mock-technical term for the skull. Brain Potato: ph. A Braindance addict. (Rus.) Razor. Anyone with combat-oriented cyberware.
Bridge & Tunnel Crowd: ph. (Brit.) Brilliant. (Frequently used sarcastically.) Bronze: n. Slang (usually derogative) term for law enforcement officials. See Brownbaggers: n. Derogatory street term for homeless alcoholics, constantly seen carrying their bottles of cheap booze wrapped in brown paper bags. Pronunciation of the hacker acronym BRS (Big Red Switch.) 1) To deactivate a machine.
2) To kill someone or render them senseless. A 'Better Than Life' chip (also called 'DreamChips'.) An illegal cyber-data chip which provides the user a combination of artificial reality coupled with direct stimulation of different centers of the brain. Though typically designed to provide a pre-programmed fantasy, the artificial reality need not be coherent, i.e. It can provide a totally hallucinatory environment. Chips are typically designed to burn out after one use, both to prevent the users brain from overloading from the sustained stimulation, and to force the user to purchase additional chips.
BTL chips are psychologically addictive and repeated, frequent use causes permanent brain damage. Buck Rogers: ph. Derogatory phrase for an individual (usually a Solo) obsessed with high-tech weaponry. (Crim.) One year in custody/prison. Bullet-Stopper: ph. (Thr.) Skating down stairs; can be done forwards, backwards, even sideways.
Burbclave: n. A self-contained and like-minded community, usually catering to a specific class or race.
'Claves have their own restrictions on entry. Burn a shoe: ph. Destroying a set of fake ID. Bury the Hatchet: ph.
(Med.) Accidently leaving a surgical instrument inside a patient. (Jap.) Honor or Code of Honor. A key concept for most, as they frequently have little else to call their own at times. Business, `Biz': n. In slang context, crime. Butt-to-Ground Adapter: ph.
An impromptu stool fashioned out of anything. Buttonhead: n. (Med.) Bag Valve Mask ( Ambu-Bag ®). A manual inflation device placed over the mouth of a patient, which, when hand-pumped, ventilates the patients lungs. Back to alphabetical. (Aq.) Underwater veteran, derived from 'sea dog'.
(Aq.) Team, also; one's circle of friends. (Mil.) A sniper, or anyone who stakes out a high recon position for an extended period. Candy Cane Loading: ph. (LEO) The practice of loading a shotgun with alternating rounds of slug and buckshot, through the entire magazine. Canoe, Making a: ph. (Med/LEO) The act of removing the body organs from a corpse during an autopsy.
A synonym for being killed. 'Somebody made a canoe out of him.' ) Captain Kangaroo: ph. 1) (Med.) Chairman of a pediatrics department. 2) (LEO) A child molester. To demand that a person show their personal identification. Career Decision (CD): ph.
(Corp) Used among low-level employees to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CD. Someone completly incapacitated, especially when drunk or stoned. The emotional baggage one carries as left-over damage from one's past. A electronic warfare jamming device. Casters Up Mode: ph. Dates back from when computers where so large that they had casters under them to facillitate moving them around.
A Class-A information dossier. Catatonic: adj. (Net) No longer responding to input. Used of both hardware, software and 'runners. (Tech.) 'Cheapest Available Technology Not Involving Prosecution.' Causing static: ph. Starting trouble.
What a person dies of after being pushed off of a multi-story building and hitting the sidewalk. (AKA.) Chain Saw Consultant: ph. (Corp) An outside expert who is brought in to reduce head count - leaving the top brass with clean hands. Chalk outline: ph. Check Fire!: ph. (Mil.) 'Hold your fire!'
; usually requested WAY too late. Check out: ph. 'Check, please!' 'I've had enough, I want this all to end.' Check six: ph. (Rig.) Visual observation of the rear quadrant, from which most air-to-air attacks can be expected. Refers to the clock system of scanning the envelope around the aircraft; 12 o'clock is straight ahead, 6 o'clock is directly astern.
Also a common salutation and greeting among tactical pilots. Keep an eye on your behind, be careful.
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Checking for light leaks: ph. (Rig.) Taking a nap, referring to the eyelids.: 1) n. 2) Pepper spray or other similar incapacitating agent (AKA 'liquid knuckles'.) Chernobyl Packet: ph. (Net) A network packet that induces network meltdown (failure), named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Such a packet can occur either accidentally or an act of deliberate malice. (Mil.) Any new, inexperienced member of a unit or team.
Street term for Freon, a comodity now, available only to the rich, who still have air-conditioners. Chilled: adj. To be cool, together. Chinese Take-out: ph.
Anything extremely jumbled or messy. 'That riotgun made his chest look like Chinese take-out.' ) Chipped: adj.
Senses, skills, reflexes, and so on, enhanced by cyberware. Chombata, Chomba: n. (Bantu) Friend. Slang for CHOOH-2, a synthetic meta-alcohol fuel. Jerk, nerd, weirdo. A credcard or credchip.
Chop shop: n. The process of cracking a stolen credcard or credchip.
Chow Chit: n. 1) Flash, glitter, bells and whistles, tinsel. Material used to spice up the appearance of something. 2) Sexy features on a program, not needed for functionality but radiating style (e.g. A guillotine instead of a trash can icon.) 3) Generic reference to cyberware. Chrome-Bangers: n.
Derogatory term for the C-SWAT team or 'PsychoSquad.' (AKA 'Circuit Breakers.' ) Chromer: n. A member of a gang dedicated to hard (chromatic) rock music (usually a specific band) and mindless violence. The original 'party animals.' Caucasian person.
Usually derogatory. 'Pal' or 'Buddy.'
May be used sarcastically. (Thr.) To damage your wheels so they have pits or missing pieces. 'I chunked my tires.' ) Chunking: v. Eating on the run, eating as a secondary activity. Circling the Drain: ph.
(Med) Slang for a patient near death who refuses to give up the ghost. Now generally used to describe anything that lives beyond its time, but will not die. Cybernetic Implant Rejection Syndrome: a psychotic aberration suffered by excessive users of cyberware. Citybuster: n.
(Mil.) A MIRV from a nuclear missile. Sometimes also referred to as a 'Crowd Pleaser.' (Mil.) The small hand-held M57 firing device used with a claymore mine. More colloquially, any remote detonator for an explosive device. (Cov.) An assassin (or team of assassins) used to eliminate all traces of a mission, including the participants. Client-Server Action: ph. (Net) Net euphemism for having sex.
'I went to the Oracle party the other night hoping for a little client-server action.' To watch someone or something very closely for a long period. ('Damn, she's been clocking me all night!' Euphemism referring to human suicide bombers (usually religious fanatics or terrorists) who strap high explosives to their own body and them detonate them manually once they arrive at a specific target location.
(FYI, from 1802 until the end of the 20th Century, the DuPont Corporation was one of the largest manufacturers of commercial and military explosives in the North America.) Cobweb Site: ph. (Net) A World Wide Web site that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead Web page. Code Grinder: ph.
(Net) A corporate programmer. AKA 'blow,' 'C,' 'charlie' and 'white lady.'
(Derogatory) A white-collar worker, usually a low-level employee of a. Areas of urban decay in major cities, characterized by high crime rates, unmaintained streets and buildings, poor police coverage, high concentrations of homeless people, and frequent outbreaks of (often gang-related) violence. Comic Book, Comics: n. Color, fan-folded (military) map. ('Pass the comics.
I think we're lost.' 1) Communication equipment. 2) Telephone. (HR) To arrange something. Content Free: ph.
(Net) Lacking any sort of useful information. Corpse: n.A corporate executive, a CORPorate Sleaziness Expert. Cortex bomb: n. A small, implanted explosive device (usually in the skull) that detonates in response to a timer or remote signal.
Usually implanted against the wearer's will to keep him in line. Most cortex bombs will detonate automatically if tampered with.
CostCo Cadillac: ph. Street name for a shopping cart used by the homeless to carry their possessions. AKA 'FoodMart Ferrarri.'
A very hot, professional deckjockey. (Mex.) Some who smuggles (usually illegal immigrants) across the U.S./Mexico border. A smokable form of crystallized cocaine.
AKA 'rock,' 'crank,' 'baseball,' 'white tornado' and 'gravel.' (Aq.) To seriously screw up.
Crash Test Dummies: ph. Individuals who pay for unstable, not-ready-for-prime-time software marketed by greedy computer companies. Creased: Killed. Money, typically electronic funds. A personal electronic debit card commonly carried in place of actual currency.
Credstick: n. (Thr.) Abbreviated term for 'concrete.' 'He dumped his board and smeared himself all over the 'crete.' ) Crickets: ph. (Rock.) Quiet, as in 'It's so quiet one could hear the crickets chirping.' 'We thought the song was great, but the first time we played it to an audience, we finished and it was, like, crickets.' ) Crispy: adj.
A compliment. Extremely nice. 'I'll bet that monitor looks really crispy in the dark!' .) Crispy Critter: ph. (Med.) A severe burn patient.
Cruiser Mode: ph. (LEO) Anyone in a state of mind such that they require a brief delay before they are able to respond to a situation. From the police practice of carrying a shotgun in the police cruiser with a full magazine but with an empty chamber, requiring the officer to 'rack the slide' before bringing the shotgun to bare. (Net) Cryptographer. Either person or program.
A 'Computer Sabotage Consultant.' A tactful form of address for a netrunner. (LEO) Cybernetic Special Weapons And Tactical squad, the police elite unit who tackle cybered up criminals. (Med.) Computerized Tomography (the follow-on to CAT (Computer Aided Tomography) scans.) A series of closely-spaced X-Ray cross-sections of a body area, which are then computer processed to yield a 3-dimensional model of the area being scanned.
Culture Vulture: ph. A member of the media. Curse, the: n. Phonetic pronounciation of '.
Cut and Paste: ph. (Med.) To open a patient, discover that there is no hope, and immediately sew him up.
Well, almost immediately. Sometimes young surgeons practice surgical techniques for a while first. (Med.) Cerebro-vascular Accident. Generic term for a vascular occlusion or hemorrhage in the cranial cavity.
Pronounced as 'see ya,' acronym for 'Cover Your Ass.' Any musical instrument (although typically a guitar) that is equipped with a cybernetic interface. Hardware used to access cyberspace through a DNI link. Cyberpsychosis: n. A psychotic aberration suffered by excessive users of cyberware (See.) Cyberspace: n. 1) The conceptual space within a computer. 2) The conceptual medium within which computer communication takes place, e.g.
Electronic bulletin boards, online services, databases, or in general the program space of any computer which can run a communication program. 3) A slang term for the global computer network. Cyberware: n.
Any cybernetic/bionic body implant which replaces or augments a specific body function. Derogatory term for corporate security personnel. Back to alphabetical. (Aq.) Corpse underwater, esp.
Those found in sub wrecks. (Med.) Dextrose 5% in Water. A common mixture, given intravenously, to rehydrate a patient.
An 'add-on' chip; a cyber-data chip containing a programmed skill which augments existing skills or provides new ones. These chips provide 'instant' training of a normally unknown ability (i.e. Flying a jet.) Dai uy: n. (Viet.) 'Captain.' (Pronounced 'die-WE'.) Danger Close: ph. (Mil.) An air strike or artillery mission within 100 meters of your position.
Dark, the: n. (See.) Dark Fiber: ph.
When high bandwidth data-comm fiber-optic cable that has much more capacity than is currently being utilized, the unused capacity is said to be 'dark'. This is usually done deliberately, in anticipation of future growth. Data Freight(er): ph. (Net) The long haul transportation of bulk digital data. Some companies exist explicitly to provide high bandwith trans/intercontinental channels for high-volume data 'freight'.
Data Mining: ph. (Net) Extracting useful information from an enormous database. Corporations have to 'mine' value from the often bewildering bedrock of (seemingly) unrelated statistics and numbers collected from various sources. Dawn Patrol: ph. (Net) Compulsive netheads or hackers who are still at their decks when you get back to them the next morning.
An expert in 'Difficult Data Retrieval.' A tactful form of address for a netrunner. Dead Baby: ph. (Cov.) A false identity.
Originates from the wide-spread practice of searching hospital and/or church records for the names of children who have died at birth or in infancy and obtaining a copy of their birth certificate for use as a basis for a new (phony) identity. Dead Cat Bounce: ph. (Fixer) A brief response from an otherwise stomped object or individual that gives the illusion of imminent recovery. Dead Presidents: n. Old (pre-collapse) United States paper currency. Dead Tree Edition: ph. The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
'The dead tree edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.' ) Death Star: ph. (Net) The spherical At&T datafortress, resembling the space fortress from Star Wars.
Deb, Debbie: n. 1) A derogatory term for male-to-female full-body sex change recipients. 2) (LEO) phonetic pronounciation of 'D.B.' , which is police and medical examiner shorthand for 'dead body.'