Apogee
The most efficient or the best.
AV
An abbreviation for Aerodyne Car, a well-liked form of jet-powered, flying automotive in Cyberpunk. AVs are normally reserved for the rich or the Trauma Group.
Biz
Quick for “trade,” however refers extra without delay to any more or less task, paintings, or assembly. Within the context of Cyberpunk
Borg
Quick for cyborg. It can be used derogatorily to pass judgement on those that have gone through a large number of cybernetic surgical procedures or just about changed their complete our bodies.
Boostergang/Booster
A gang (or a member of a gang) characterised via their excessive territoriality and use of cybernetic implants. That is the most typical form of gang in Evening Town. Boostergangs can include only a handful of punks, or they may be able to be a big, arranged team like Maelstrom.
Bourgie/Bourgy
A classist insult that means “low magnificence.”
Braindance/BD
A digital revel in that permits the consumer to relive somebody else’s reminiscence, together with their ideas, feelings, and ache. Braindance editors, equivalent to Cyberpunk 2077‘s Judy, can edit uncooked photos to show it right into a marketable product, normally for leisure functions.
Chippin’ In
To put in cyberware, particularly for the primary time. Alternately, to hook as much as any device. This may be the title of a unmarried via Johnny Silverhand’s band, Samurai.
CHOOH/CHOOH2
An alternate gasoline invented via Biotechnica. Can be utilized interchangeably with sure fashionable American English makes use of of “fuel” – e.g., “Hit the CHOOH!“
Choom/Choombah
Derived from “choombatta,” this can be a Neo-African American phrase of endearment for a pal or circle of relatives member. It’s been appropriated extensively via non-Black citizens of Evening Town as a coarse synonym for “bro” or “bud.”
Chrome
Every other phrase for cyberware. May also be used as a verb, to explain the motion of receiving cybernetic implants.
Corpo
A phrase for a company worker, frequently utilized in a derisive method. It is also one in all Cyberpunk 2077‘s branching lifepaths.
Tradition Vulture
An leisure journalist, particularly those that benefit off of publicizing tragedy.
DataKrash
The near-total cave in of the Web, orchestrated via mythical Netrunner Rache Bartmoss within the early 2020s.
Deckhead
Every other phrase for a Netrunner. So-called for the cybernetic implant of their mind, which allows them to input and hack the Web.
Delta
To depart, normally with haste.
Detes
Quick for “main points.”
Grimy
Analog, low-tech, or out of date. This derogatory label could also be carried out to pieces unconnected to the Web, or to anything else suspiciously antiquated.
Dock
Sexual sex, particularly an informal hookup.
Dorph
Endorphins; a man-made leisure endorphin. Hackers in Evening Town are identified to take Dorphs to spice up their efficiency.
Dorpher/Dorphead
Customers of Dorphs who’ve change into reliant at the drug. Dorph gangs are frequently composed of Dorphers and Dorph pushers.
(The) Edge
The outskirts of society, the unsuitable facet of the monitor, the darkness at the fringe of the town. The metaphorical house of Edgerunners in Cyberpunk 2077.
Edgerunner
Any person who lives at the Edge. Is also claimed as a badge of honor and even vocation, as within the quite a lot of fixers, couriers, and mercenaries who can get issues accomplished simply outdoor the letter of the regulation.
Eddies
Quick for Eurodollars, Evening Town’s number one forex.
Fixer
A dealmaker, normally within the crime trade. Typically the primary level of touch in
Flatline
To die or to kill.
Gangoon
A gang member, implied to be low-ranking. Most commonly related to the Valentinos.
Gato
Every other phrase for cool.
Gonk
An fool or a idiot.
Take care of
A side road title or modify ego, frequently used to evade id when operating outdoor the regulation.
Highrider
An area-dweller. Some such Cyberpunk voters spend maximum in their lives in area, operating on satellites or as team on interstellar flights.
Iron
A gun or different weapon.
Jaina
A time period of endearment related to Chicano tradition.
Joytoy
A intercourse employee. Can also be gendered as Joyboy or Joygirl.
Kibble
Processed meals, particularly govt rations which resemble dry pet food (as it actually is – Kibble used to be first created via a pet food producer).
Kibble Card
A ration card. Analogous to meals stamps or EBT, lots of Evening Town’s poorest are reliant on a deteriorating welfare state which allots them low high quality meals.
Klep
To scouse borrow. From the Greek phrase of the similar that means, however almost certainly extra without delay derived from “kleptomania.”
Linefoot
A time period for a non-Nomad, normally utilized by Nomads.
Meatspace
The bodily global, versus our on-line world.
Netrunner
A specialised, professional consumer of the Web. Somebody can use the Web, however Netrunners have augmented themselves to hack into the Web’s Menu and traverse our on-line world with grace.
Netpig
A derogatory time period for Netwatch, the personal police power that displays the Web since DataKrash.
Nomad
Citizens of the Badlands outdoor Evening Town, frequently banned from corpo lifestyles. For characters in Cyberpunk 2077, this can be a lifepath outlined via belonging to a close-knit extended family.
Nova
Cool. Derived from Latin for “new.” Used in a similar fashion to “preem,” particularly when the topic is one thing distinctive or technologically complicated.
Posergang/Poser
A gang (or a member of a gang) that operates with the principle function of accomplishing a undeniable frame sort or bodily look. Even supposing they are now some of the unhealthy gangs in Cyberpunk 2077, the Valentinos have been at first a posergang.
Preem
Derived from the phrase top rate, this informal time period manner “cool” or “dope.” Used in a similar fashion to “nova.”
Ripperdoc/Ripper
A cybernetic surgeon. Whilst any physician focusing on outfitting sufferers with cyberware might be referred to as a ripperdoc, the time period carries a streetwise connotation that frequently denotes a practitioner who caters to Evening Town’s prison part.
Rockerboy/Rockergirl
A musician that doubles as an activist, the usage of their skills to guide social actions. Their enthusiasts and comrades view them as freedom opponents, however some Corpos choose to name them terrorists.
Samurai
A company mercenary. Additionally the ironic title of Johnny Silverhand’s band in Cyberpunk 2077.
SCOP
Unmarried-cell natural protein, an element of artificial meals. Related to low-quality foodstuffs, it can be used disparagingly, particularly when blended with insults as in “scopsucker.”
Scratch
Every other phrase for cash or eddies.
Screamsheets
Newspapers which can be personalised to the shopper’s pursuits, normally virtual slightly than bodily.
Scroll
To edit a braindance.
Shard
Quick for “datashard,” the principle medium of moveable knowledge garage within the Cyberpunk continuity. Mainly comparable to a flash pressure.
Solo
A lone mercenary who takes many momentary gigs for speedy money, versus sticking with one long-term task or company.
Trauma
Quick for Trauma Group, Evening Town’s heavily-armed squad of scientific first responders. Trauma Group shoppers could also be referred to via the kind of insurance coverage they have bought. The ones with the most costly package deal, Platinum protection, are assured higher carrier than the ones with a Silver or Gold package deal.
Vidiot
A online game or digital fact addict.
Virtu
An unedited Braindance, by which feelings and sensations are felt totally. Continuously related to gray-market BDs appearing extremely objectionable content material.
Weefle
An green Netrunner.
Zeroed
Killed. This time period could also be a connection with “zeroing” in tabletop RPGs, when a participant persona loses all in their hit issues.
