cyberpunk

Etymology

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

Noun

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.
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.

Noun

cyberpunk

1. Alternative spelling of kyberpunk

Noun

cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)

1. (science fiction) cyberpunk

Noun

cyberpunk m (plural cyberpunks)

1. cyberpunk