cyberpunk

cyber- +‎ -punk, coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.

cyberpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cyberpunks)

1. (science fiction, uncountable) 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.
   • 1991 January 7, Lewis Shiner, “Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.

   • 2015, Abby H. P. Werlock, Encyclopedia of the American Short Story, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:

     Cyberpunk stories are set in a futuristic, dystopic environment—the opposite of utopian—in which computer technology plays an important role. […] The protagonists of cyberpunk stories are technologically proficient, lonely adventurers struggling with issues of identity and forced to use computer skills to fight menacing forces of domination.

2. (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

   The film “The Matrix” redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.

3. (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
   • 1989, SPIN magazine (volume 4, number 10, January 1989, page 50)

     […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^[sic], Bruce Sterling […]

4. (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
   • 2003, Jan Haluska, The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, →ISBN, page 109:

     A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.

   • 2014, Gemma White, Furniture is Disappearing, →ISBN, page 41:

     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.

   • 2017, Tristanne Connolly & Tomoyuki Iino, Canadian Music and American Culture: Get Away From Me, →ISBN, page 182:

     Indeed, 'Mindphaser' (and Tactical Neural Implant more generally) represents a high point of cyberpunk in the industrial music scene.

• -punk

• steampunk
• solarpunk

• cyberpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bruce Bethke (1997), “The Etymology of Cyberpunk”, in brucebethke.com‎, archived from the original on 2013-07-16

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑi̯berpuŋk/, [ˈs̠ɑi̯be̞rpuŋk]

cyberpunk

1. Alternative spelling of kyberpunk

From English cyberpunk.

• IPA^(key): /si.bɛʁ.pœŋk/

cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)

1. (science fiction) cyberpunk

Unadapted borrowing from English cyberpunk.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɨˈbɛr.paŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛrpaŋk
• Syllabification: cy‧ber‧punk

cyberpunk m inan

1. (film, science fiction) cyberpunk (sci-fi subgenre)

cyberpunk m pers

1. (film, science fiction) cyberpunk (cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life)

• cyberpunk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cyberpunk in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θibeɾˈpank/ [θi.β̞eɾˈpãŋk]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sibeɾˈpank/ [si.β̞eɾˈpãŋk]
• Rhymes: -ank

cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)

1. cyberpunk