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cyberpunk definition

☆ cy·ber·punk (sī′bər puŋk′)

noun

  1. a type of science fiction typically describing a violent, urban future in which computers and drugs predominate
  2. Slang hacker (sense )

Etymology: cyber- (as in cybernetics) + punk ()

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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