Cyberpunk Definition

sībər-pŭnk
cyberpunks
noun
A type of science fiction typically describing a violent, urban future in which computers and drugs predominate.
Webster's New World
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(countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
Wiktionary
(countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
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Synonyms:
  • cyber-terrorist
  • hacker

Other Word Forms of Cyberpunk

Noun

Singular:
cyberpunk
Plural:
cyberpunks

Origin of Cyberpunk

  • cyber- +‎ punk, coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story.

    From Wiktionary

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