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Cyber Punk

Pertains to both a literary genre and more recently to an attitude or lifestyle.

The media genre generally is placed in the future and develops more on the fact that the future may not end, but may not be pretty either. Generally the storyline centres around some form of technology.

The more recent lifestyle that has evolved and coined this term is fragmented and hard to classify. It is still very new and there is debate on what the term means. Generally observation shows that "cyberpunks" are not only extremely technologically proficient, but are innately adept at it. They have a desire to know all forms of technology they come into contact with. Their attitude tends to be somewhat apathetic towards anything that doesn't directly involve them and their style of dress and personal tastes tend to be eccentrically futuristic.
Literature:
Nueromancer
Snow Crash
Cyber Punk by nexusvt100 May 12, 2004
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Cyber Punk

The hardest thing to say about cyber punk is it's definition. To sum up what cyber punk means in reality - it generally covers the computing underworld of hackers, as well as various underground technology such as amateur military technology.

In fiction, cyber punk is considered a sub-genre of sci-fi, especially popular in Japanese animation (anime), although also seen in films such as Blade Runner and The Matrix. Generally, this type of fiction covers the subjects of computing, hacking and general mechanical technology.

It should be noted that cyber punk is not an officially accepted term in computer science, although it has been widely accepted as a laymans term in fiction.
That anime has mecha fights, computers that can access everyones brain, its a cyber punk anime.
Cyber Punk by Stephan Lewin January 14, 2004

Cyber Punk

A mix of film noir and science fiction, generally used to decribe media. Cyber Punk is usually about hackers, or some form of sentient computer programming (like and AI). The stories are usually told with a very urban noir style.

As far as a look, it's hard to put a figner on it. I dont think any one look can be described as cyber punk, its more of an attitude. Black jeans, tight t shirt with holograms, and leather jackets are a good start. Maybe toss in some Chuck Taylors, or combat boots. Some goggles or head phones might make good accesories.
Neuromancer is the greatest cyberpunk sotry ever told.
Cyber Punk by cultclassic April 29, 2005

Cyber punk

Stop being such a Cyber punk
Cyber punk by Hercolena Oliver July 10, 2010

cyber punk

a person who, in online chatrooms or in games, makes a complete ass of themselves and spacificly try to piss off people just for fun.
Cyber punk: Lawl who here lieks pie?
forum user: WTF?
Cyber punk: thats wut ur mom said last night!
cyber punk by Nerd~02 October 8, 2007

Cyber punk 2

A game my friend won’t fucking shut up about
My friend won’t shut up about fucking cyber punk 2
Cyber punk 2 by Hay ho let’s go December 4, 2020

cyberpunk 

1. High tech, low life.

2. The future is here. It's everything we wanted and nothing we needed.
Today is yesterday's cyberpunk dystopia.
cyberpunk by Flumberbug March 22, 2019
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