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>>>[In the world today, looking slick and smooth is everything. Having the latest chromed cyberoptics or the coolest tech hair means that you are not just another one of those chumps on the streets. To be able to strut into the local nightclub with a leather jacket, glowing tattoo, fangs the size of a bullet and nice new shiny cyberarm shows that you ain't one of those thugs on the street looking for their next hit but you truly know the essence of being a cyberpunk. Looking as though you can take down 20 solos in the blink of an eye makes people treat you like the man, and when people treat you like the man that means respect. Sure you need some function to your cyberware but if you walk around the street with a huge Arasaka Light 20mm cannon on your armoured shoulders it is like having a huge neon sign above you saying "Hey, I am a solo - shoot me!"

Function comes after fashion. It is important to have equipment that performs and enhances you, but not to the point where you look like a human tank. To be able to talk the talk on the streets, look the part and to be able to take them out when you need to is the ultimate goal for any cyberpunk. Essentials like plugs, neural processor, and reflex boosts and the basics for any cyberpunk. But after these few enhancements it is where your style and opinion comes into play. It is important to realise that you can have both fashion and function in any piece of equipment; but not having either of them means not being a cyberpunk. It means being one of those toe suckers on the street - you know those victims. When taking function into consideration, one must be absolutely sure of what he/she is buying. First of all when purchasing a piece of cyberware consider what it will do, how will this affect me, why do I want it, is it worth it and is there something better than this. You must understand and learn the affects of the piece of cyberware before purchasing another. Make time to learn the new technologies advantages, limitations and effects on YOUR mind and body.

Look around the streets today, what do you see. Fashion. You look to your left and you see a high paid corp. with a 5000eb. Eji original and chromed cyberoptics; now that is smooth. Look to your right and you see a solo with a chromed cyberarm, leather trench coat and yellow cyberoptics and you say he looks tough. Both of these people have style. They know the true meaning of fashion but they never forget what function is all about. They know that if you have one, you must have the other. Fashion and function go hand in hand. For example, take a look at the most elite group of solos in the world. The Eurosolo. They are the ultimate in fashion and function. If you ask them what is more important to them they will say looking good. However they never compromise on function with second rate cyberware so that they can look good. They have it all in one. The next time you go to buy cyberware think about this. Metal is off course better than meat. Keeping in mind that a cyberpunk without fashion is like a gun without trigger. It just don't work.]<<<

-Zar, The Cyberpunk Project

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Slang Cont.



Jack - 1) Jack In, or enter cyberspace. Jack Out, or leave cyberspace. 2) A DNI connection (usually in the skull) for a cyberdeck. 3) Money.

Jacked - 1) Senses, skills, reflexes, muscles, and so on enhanced by cyberwear. 2) To be connected to cyberspace, a rigged vehicle/security system, or a simsense playback unit.

Jacked-In - Actively using a cyberdeck.

Jake - 1)A homosexual prostitute. 2) A hustler. (Both uses are derogatory.)

Jam - 1) To fight or run away. 2) To have sex.

Jamming - 1) Sex. 2) Moshing heavily in a band. 3) Being involved in a paramilitary operation involving a large amount of flying bullets and shrapnel.

Jander - To walk in a casual or arrogant manner, to strut.

Jazzed - Equipped with reflex-enhancing cyberware.

Jihyo - (jap) Lit. "a letter of resignation."

Jock, Jockey - A person with technical skills of a high order (e.g. deckjockey, deltajock, panzerjock).

Johnson - See Mr. Johnson.

JoyBoy/JoyGir - Prostitute.

Joytoy - A prostitute who has been cybernetically modified or sculpted to match the specifications of the user.

Juggler - A specialized type of decker who jacks-in primarily to role-play/compete on the Matrix's Game-Grids.

Juvie/Juve - 1) Street slang for anything relating to a juvenile. 2) A legal minor, eg. anyone under 18-years-old.

Kambu Atsukai - (jap) Lit. "low-level executives;" ie. sararimen.

Kamikaze - (jap) Lit. "divine wind." 1) Any suicide pilot. 2) A taxi driver. 3) A tailored amphetamine combat drug.

Keeping Up with the Villiers - To maintain a state-of-the-art or cutting edge tech-level. From Fuchi Corp's CEO.

Keiretsu - (Jap.) A corporate, cartel, or conglomerate.

Khorosho - (Rus.) Good. OK. Fine.

Kibble Card - Government food ration card.

Kick Artist - Street slang for a person hired to threaten or beat up someone, but not to kill them.

Killzone - 1) The body areas where a weapon will kill its target. 2) The maximum destruction area of an ambush site.

Kittycat Run - A drek run (q.v.), so named when a Johnson had a group of runners rescue a kidnapped feline.

Klepto, Kleptoid - Thief, prowler.

Kludge - A makeshift or temporary solution to a problem, usually sloppy and inefficient.

Knife Bullets - Armor piercing ammunition.

Know, The Knowledge - or information.

Konban Wa - (jap) Lit. "good evening."

Konnichi Wa - (jap) Lit. "good afternoon."

Kobun - A Yakuza clan member.

Krovvy - (Rus.) Bloody.

-Kun - (jap) Lit. a familiar, almost paternal, name suffix/form of address.

Kuromaku - (jap) A fixer. Lit. "one who arranges." From the operator of puppets who stands behind a black stage.

Landing Hot - A fast landing under hostile fire or in a damaged vehicle.

Latch Jockey - Digital hardware designer

Leash - A corporate safeguard implanted into an employee to ensure loyalty and continued service. Cortex bombs and sabotaged chipware are common examples.

Lector - Complimentary term used by boostergang members about a non-gang member when impressed by that individuals ability to perform acts of extreme violence.

Leech p Street-doc or med-tech, particularly one that is expensive or unrelaible. Like kicking dead whales down the beach Any slow and disgusting job or process

Liquefier, liquidizer - Any weapon capable of inflicting obscene amounts of damage to the human body, particularly automatic shotguns.

Liquid Knuckles - Any powerful chemical akin to Mace; including Mace-XII and certain neurostun variants.

Lizard Brain - a cold, calculating, unemotional person, somebody always running in pure floating point mode (e.g. Mr. Spock).

Lo-Tek's - Originally a Denver street-gang, now taken to mean any urbanite who adopts a low technology lifestyle.

Lunchmeat - Of or relating to the remains of any unarmored person hit by heavy weapons. Also hamburger.

Lurker - A decker who only sneaks into systems to look around, never taking anything.

LZ - An abbreviation for Landing Zone. Also drop zone or DZ.

Maglev - Shorthand term for a magnetic levitation train.

Make - a deposit in the body bank to die.

Marionette - A meat puppet.

Marley - A complementary term, often applied musical performances (eg. "a Marley of a concert"). See Harry.

Matrix - Another term for cyberspace, the consensual, V.R. hallucination of the world-wide computer network, its systems, icons, & sites.

Max-Tac - A MAXimun force TACtical division, eg. C-SWAT.

Meat - 1) Decker slang for the physical body, un-cybered flesh, or anything else undesirable. 2) A decker curse-word, equivalent to "drek!"

Meat Bop Parts - Vat grown replacement body parts.

Meat Puppet - A prostitute whose memory and/or senses are disabled temporarily.

Meat Rack - A house of ill repute.

Meat-Space - Decker slang for the physical world, ie. the opposite of cyberspace.

Mechanic - See cleaner.

Medico - The heavily armored, non-offensive, biotech position on an urban brawl team.

Mega, Megacorp - Large (global or extra-planetary) corporation.

Mentat - Brainy individual, specifically one who will stare at a problem without moving for a while and come up with an answer without doing any apparent intermediate steps (like writing things down).

Metalhead - 1) Individual with a fully mechanical body - a full 'Borg. 2) A heavy metal fan.

Metro, the - The subway or underground.

Microsoft - See Biosoft.

Mierda - A Spanish equivalent to drek.

Mileetsya - (Rus.) Corruption of the Russian pronunciation of "Militia", typically used in reference to corporate security or the military.

MIL-INT - 1) An abbreviation for MILitary INTelligence. 2) Anything inherently oxymoronic.

Mnemonic - Someone who uses a brain implant as an electronic vault.

Moddy - A personality module. A cyber-data chip which allows the user to
assume (and become totally submerged in) the personality of another person (real or fictional).

Monkey - The business term for an expendable person. (See also Scratch Monkey.)

Monkey Trick - A job in which a monkey (q.v.) is not expected to survive intact.

Morningstar - Generic term for incendiary or fragmentation grenades or devices, particularly white phosporous.

Motorhead - A rigger (q.v.) or mechanic.

Mouse Around - To explore in a very low profile manner (e.g. "Let's mouse around the perimeter and see if we can find a way in.").

Mr. Johnson - Any anonymous employer or corporate agent.

Mr. Who - (Also "The Who") label for an employer or person of higher authority.

Mudgirl - Airborne rigger slang for a female non-flyer.

MuscleBoy/Girl - A person with muscle grafts.

Mushi - (Jap.) Computer glitch.

Muzak-Man - Derogatory term for a rocker who has sold out to an entertainment corporation. (Syn. "synth-soul" or "castrato".)

Naked - See running naked.

Nano-Tech - The science responsible for cyberware. Lit. "one step beyond micro-technology."

Neh - exp. - (Jap.) Interrogative; "Right?", lit. "negative."

Nerdlings - Immature nerds, implying inconsequential, generally annoying. Pejorative term.

Nerks - Agents or officials of the National Emergency Resource Control Commission (under the Provisional U.S. government).

Nervewires - Cybernetic reflex enhancements, normally Wired Reflexes.

Net - Another term for cyberspace.

NetFet Net Fetishist - Derogatory term for a netrunner who can only relate to life in the Net.

NetNerd - Someone who spends more time in the matrix than in the real world.

Netrun - A session spent interfaced to a cyberdeck and exploring the matrix (cyberspace), usually in the course of invading a corporate database.

Netrunner - A decker, not necessarily implying illegal activities. See also Deckjockey.

New-Ones - A slang term for Nuyen, as in "she gave you fifty new-ones."

NewTek - An item or device exhibiting the very latest technological advances.

NIMBY - ("NIM-bee") One who is in favor of an unpleasant or dangerous action, so long as it occurs elsewhere. From acronym, "Not In My BackYard."

Nine - A pistol (from 9mm.)

Ninja - A freelance assassin.

Noisy Run - 1) A high profile shadowrun, designed to attract (otherwise, unwanted) attention. 2) A tactical diversion. See tailchaser.

NukeGake - (jap) Lit. a warrior who sneaks out from camp to attack the enemy solo, thus gaining personal honor.

Null Persp - A slang expression meaning, "no problem," "all right," or "affirmative." From the archaic expression, "no sweat."

Nutrisoy - Cheap processed food product derived from soybeans, fortified with most essential vitamins.

Nuyen - World standard of currency. Used for Japanese foreign markets.

Ohayo Gozaimsu - (jap) Lit. "good morning."

Olly - A particularly dangerous form of Samurai, who threatens his friends and associates.

One and Twenty, the - The twenty-first century.

Oo'zhas - (Rus.) Awful. Terrible.

Ops - The abbreviated form of "operations," normally refering to a dangerous or paramility activity.

Organitskaya - (Rus.) The Russian Mob.

Otaku - A child with the natural ability to run in the Matrix, without a cyberdeck.

Output - Boyfriend, male companion.

Outrigger - The motorcycle riding, non-offensive position on an urban brawl team.

Oyabun - Head of a Yakuza clan.

Panther Cozy - Any large bag used in a futile attempt to conceal an assault cannon.

Panzer - Any ground-effect or hovercraft combat vehicle.

Panzerjock - An expert panzer operator.

Paranoid - Someone who has all the facts.

Parraquiano - (spn) Lit. "a patron."

Paydata - Datafile worth money on the black market.

Perp Perpetrator - A criminal or suspected criminal.

Persona - A personal Matrix icon. See avatar.

Pervo - A freakish-looking individual.

Pig-Rig - A police car.

Pinkskin - A rural-dwelling white or non-Amerind, who affects a low-tech lifestyle.

Plastic Gangster - A person with a great deal of cyberware.

Plex - A metropolitan complex, or "metroplex".

PLR - A cyberdeck plug-in, designed to negate the effects of black IC. From the acronym, "Phase-Loop Recourser."

Pods - People who are very much alike in thought, behavior, and appearance. Pejorative term. Also Podlings - particularly immature variations of the Pods.

Polymer - One-shot A cheap line of polymer plastic, non-reloadable handguns. Very inexpensive, and very unreliable, they come in a variety of colors.

Pony - A low-level streetdealer, lower on the social scale than a Fixer (q.v.). (Origin: from a pony"s ability to carry, but possibly also from London slang: pony = 20 pounds(); ponies very rarely sell expensive items.)

Poppers - Pop-up weaponry concealed in a cyberlimb.

Porky - Someone who loves or collects weapons, and is usually bristling with them (from "porcupine").

Poser - 1) A person who pretends to be something they are not, especially through surgery. 2) A posergang member.

Poser Gang - Any gang whose members all adopt a specific look or style.

Priyatel - (rus) Lit. "chummer."

Progs, Proggies - Agents or officials of the Provisional Government of the United States.

Proles - Lower class individuals, usually non-citizens; Street scum. See Zero.

Puerco - (spn) Lit. "pig."

Punch - 1) To force one's way into a protected system. 2) To enter commands on a cyberdeck. Also to punch deck.

Puppet - 1) An illegal cut-out chip that turns off most of the conscious mind, commonly fitted to prostitutes. 2) See Meat Puppet.

Puppet Gang - Any gang controlled by a corporation.

Puppet Parlor - A house of ill-repute, ie. populated by meat puppets.

Puta - (spn) Lit. "whore."

Quakers - Missiles or rockets.

R&P "Rape and Pillage." - To engage in an activity with excessive force or violence.

Rainbow File - The research and development data of a company.

Rakusho-dayo! - (jap) Lit. "No problem!"

Ram Personality - (from computer jargon, RAM).

Ramjammer - A decker, more often a juggler, addicted to violent confrontations in the Matrix.

Rat-Lab - Prisons in the Provisional U.S., where prisoners are used as experimental subjects for medical research, cyberware development, chemical warfare tests, etc. Most consider a sentence to a rat lab to be no different than a death sentence.

Ray-Ban - Mode wearing shades.

Razor[boy/girl/gal/guy/etc] - 1) Heavily cybered samurai or other muscle-for-hire. 2) A person who uses various bladed implant weapons.

Reality Junkie - Addicts to Virtual Reality, Braindance, the Net, or video games.

Reason - 1) A slang name for a minigun. 2) A railgun.

Reconfig - To kill or die in a particularly messy fashion, usually with a knife.

Recycling - Environmentally friendly act of killing someone and taking the corpse to a body bank.

Reduce - Slang for physical violence (e.g. "Hey *******, shut down (q.v.) your screamer (q.v.) or I'll reduce your face!"). See also packing, spindling, stomping, etc.

Reduction - The act of reducing something or someone.

Reflex Chip- See Apter.

Rigger - A specialized type of deckjockey who is an expert at cybernetic link-up to, and control of, a machine (typically a vehicle or building security system).

Rigging - To jack into and control a security system or vehicle, becoming one with it.

Rimbo - A gun-totting sex kitten (a rambo bimbo).

Ripperdoc - A surgeon who specializes in implanting illegal or unregistered cyberware.

Rippers - A slang term for hand razors.

Rock - To kick or punch someone violently, especially in the head. Derived from the Jailhouse Rock fighting style.

Rocker, Rockerboy/girl - Any musician or stage performer who uses their art to make political or social statements. As opposed to "Rockstars" who are "owned" by recording companies or other corps. and are apolitical.

R.O.E. - A samurai term for the specific conditions of a particular contract. From, "Rules Of Engagement."

Rogue - An AI (q.v.) which has "escaped" from it's node in cyberspace and is no longer under human control.

Rogue Hunter - A netrunner (q.v.) who tracks down and captures (or eliminates) rogues (q.v.).

Roid - 1) A slang term for a steroid. 2) A derm.

Ronin - A freelance assassin or mercenary. Usually considered to be untrustworthy.

Running Naked - To enter the Matrix without a cyberdeck, using a program carrier.

RV - 1) A RendezVous point. - Also a pickup zone or PZ. 2) Slang for an APC. From "Recreational Vehicle."

Samurai - (Jap.) Mercenary or muscle-for-hire. Implies code of honor. (Syn. Street samurai.)

San - (jap) A respectful form of address or title. Lit. "Mr, Mrs, Ms, Sir, or Madam."

SAN - A doorway between a computer and the outside world. From the UMSC abbreviation, "System Access Node."

Sand - Phonetic pronunciation of the phrase "S-and-D", for "Search and
Destroy." To sand someone or something is to locate and severely damage them or it.

Sarariman - (Jap.) A corporate employee. From the Pidgin-English pronounciation of "salaryman."

Sardine - A soldier wearing Powered Armor.

Scout - Any of the four, lightly armored, offensive positions on an urban brawl team.

Scratch Monkey - (Obsc. hacker ref.) Any expendable substitute used in place of a more valuable item, on the off chance that it might be
damaged or destroyed. (see Monkey, Monkey trick)

Screamer - 1) Slang for mouth (e.g. "Hey *******, shut down (q.v.) your
screamer!" 2) Something fast, sleek, and sexy, used as an expression of admiration (e.g. "She/He/It's a real screamer!) 3)Somebody who screams a lot while being reduced (q.v.) 4) Somebody who screams a lot while being tightly interfaced (q.v.). 5) Credstick (or card) or other ID that triggers computer alarms if used.

Screamsheet - Fax-type hardcopy newspapers, available by-the-page from street corner dispensers, especially one catering to non-issues of the minute (e.g. USA Today, National Enquirer). Coined by Walter Jon Williams.

Scroll, the - 1) The constant, unremitting, and overwhelming barrage of information absorbed by everyone in modern society from the modern media, from cyberspace feed, from the grapevine, and from any other means we have of tuning in to the world state. (E.g. we find out about the latest war in the Middle East, the latest hardware, the latest vaporware from The Scroll.) 2) The term used to describe the messages, bulletins, and other data daily being produced and scrolled off various cyberspace systems.

Seoul Man - A member of a Seoulpa Ring.

Seoulpa Ring - A small criminal gang with web-like connections to others like it.

Sepuku - (jap) Lit. the traditional, ritual, Japanese suicide. Also harakiri.

Shadowriders - The unofficial, Lone Star, elite cadres, who've made SINless shadowrunners their special jurisdiction.

Shadowrun - Any movement, action, or series of such made in carrying out plans which are illegal or quasi-legal.

Shadows - The quasi-criminal world of freelance shadowrunners.

Shag - To bamboozle, cheat or trick.

Shakatu - (jap) Lit. "company house."

Shalkujin - An "honest" citizen.

Shirt - A white-collar worker, usually a low level corporate employee.

Shoemaker - A street slang term for a producer of fake credsticks or identification (ie. shoes).

Short-circ - See Fuse.

Shortwire - To burn out, flame out, splash down and generally crash mentally.

Shredder - A minigun or auto-cannon.

Shut Down - to shut up, used as an exclamation (e.g. "Hey *******, shut down!")

Sidewalk Outline - A recently deceased person, or to one who expected to die soon. The reference is to the chalk outline drawn around a dead body at a murder scene by the police.

SimSense - Simulated Sensory input, usually from a commercial recording.

SimStim - Simulated stimulation of the senses, usually from a DNI recording.

SIN - Single (or System) Identification Number. An ID number unique to each citizen. Many streetpeople (nomads, derelicts) are said to be
"SINless", i.e. without a SIN. This makes them unknown (non-existent) to the system. It allows them to move about in society more freely than a "recorded" citizen, but also allows the enforcers of society (police and corp. security) to punish/abuse them without due process since, technically, they "do not exist".

SIN Card - A registered citizens universal ID card. It functions as a combination ID card, driver's license, medical data, organ donor, residence, and ATM card, all in one. Losing this card can have serious side effects for the owner.

SINless - someone without a SIN. See Blank.

SINner - 1) An honest citizen, ie. one who has a SIN. 2) A corporate employee.

Skagman - A dealer in illegal wire or chips.

Skat - A gross-looking individual.

Skeinsuit - A near-frictionless bodyweave/catsuit, used for maneuvering through tight places, such as ventilation ducts.

Skeleton - All the collected electronic records kept on an individual; their electronic identity.

Skillsoft - See Apter or Biosoft.

Skirt - An ordinary (defenseless) person (male or female.)

Skiv - To rob on the street.

Skrag - 1) To kill, to "off." 2) To destroy.

Skyball - A satellite (usually surveillance).

Slam - To assault or beat up (e.g. "Let's go slam some 'dorphers.")

Slam - it Generic expletive (Syn. kiss off, up yours.)

Slammit] On - 1) To get violent. 2) To attack someone without reason.

Slap Patch - See derm.

Slave - 1) Of or relating to a corporate employee. 2) Specifically, a wage- or data-slave.

Slice - 1) A credit card. 2) An electric-powered racing cycle.

Slice n' Dice - A mono-filament cyberweapon, usually mounted in the tip of a finger, which is used as a garrotte or whip. It will cut through almost all organic material and most plastics.

Slicer - One who ride a slice (q.v.).

Slicks - A slang term for Teflon-coated bullets, ie. primitive armor piercing.

Slicksuit - See skeinsuit.

Slit - A slang term for a female.

Slitch - Another slang term for a female.

Slot - 1) Mild curse word (i.e. "Slot THIS, chummer!"). 2) To plug a moddy or daddy into a DNI ( i.e. to use a skillsoft.) 3) To have sex.

Slot and Run - Hurry up, get to the point, move it.

Smart - Any device which has been augmented to interface with a user via cyberware; usually applies to weapons or vehicles.

Smudge - Pronunciation of the acronym SMG (SubMachineGun); thus, a submachinegun.

So ka - (Jap.) I understand, I get it.

Solo - A mercenary who works the streets. A "for-hire" combat specialist. Used as bodyguards, assassins, and soldiers, individually or in groups.
Somethin' I don't have to stick in my fraggin' head - A common response to a drug dealers' "whadda ya need?"-line.
S.O.P. - Any set of standing orders, used when commo is compromised. From "Standard Operating Procedueres."
Sota State of the Art

Soykaf - Coffee substitute made from soybeans.

Spare Parts - 1) A corpse. 2) Any vat-grown or donated body-part (wheather by choice or not).

Sphincter Factor - A level of disgust, nervousness, or fear (usually on a scale of 1 to 10.)

Spill - To spend money.

Spit Jockey - On camera (video): news reader, anchor, host. (also known as Talking Heads)

Splash - To shoot down. E.g. to splash an idea, or "Splash that b*****d!"

Splat Job - A dead body, usually messy. Also sometimes used to describe a person (or persons) who are "cannon fodder" and are not expected to live much longer.

SplatMaster - Generic term for any paintball-type air pistol. Formerly a trademarked name.

Sprawl - 1) A huge metropolitan area, usually consisting of several merged mega-cities, covered a large portion of a landmass. 2) The prone position the bronze order perps to assume. 3) To fraternize below one's social level.

Sprawling - A corporate pass-time, involving visiting dangerous areas of town, with minimal protection. From slumming.

Squat - Of or relating to any low-class housing.

Squatter - An impoverished citizen--one step up from being homeless, but just barely.

SQUID - A Navy "Superconducting QUantum Interference conDuctor"
device, able to read headware memory.

State of the Art (Aka SOTA) - 1) Hipper than Hip. 2) To be on the edge (usually technologically).

Straightener - A less than affectionate form of address for a psychiatrist. Aka "shrink".

Straphangers - Derogatory term for commuters.

Streak - To run naked in the Matrix.

Streaker - A hacker who prefers to streak.

Street, The - 1) The Underground or Black Market. 2) The sub-culture. 3) The place where you live late at night.

Street Doc - A ripperdoc who performs emergency wound surgery as well.

Streetmeat - A term for people not equiped to survive on the streets: hicks, sprawling suits, or involuntary meat puppets.

Streetname - A nickname, handle, or working name by which one it known by on the streets.

Street Samurai - A samurai who works for gangs, mobsters, or him/herself. Usually has cybernetic implants.

Stud - 1) See Jack. 2) A slang term for anyone (or the state of being) jacked-into a machine, other than a cyberdeck.

Stud/Studding - Rigging or remote control of a vehicle.

Stuffit - 1) To have sex. 2) To forget about something.

Stuka - A slang term for diving, "as in he did a stuka into the pool" or "he stukad underneath the table."

Stunning - Mind-bogglingly stupid. Used sarcastically.

Suit - A straight citizen, usually a corporate employee.

Surprise Party - What your opponents are likely to get if you break your Trauma Team card during a firefight.

Suss - To solve a problem, figure out something, understand.

Svoluch - (Rus.) 1) Derogatory term for someone with honor. 2) A b*****d.

Swag - A commodity, usually a datafile, worth money on the black market. See paydata.

SWAT - Special Weapons And Tactics.

Sweedack - Concurrence, or "I agree". From the French Canadian "Je suis d'accord."

Synth-soul - See Muzak-Man.

System Identification Number - See SIN.

System Overstress - See biosystem overstress.

Tag - 1) Name, handle or trademark 2) To grab or take something. 3) To mark destinctively.

Tagged - Equipped with a tracking device. Recognized.

Tag Team - A (usually corporate-sponsored) gang whose fights with other Tag Teams are covered by the vid networks as a commercial combat sport.

Tailchaser - A high profile or noisy run to retrieve false or planted info, thus proving the info's validity.

Tanj! - A mild expletive decrying "the unfairness of it all." From the acronym, "There Ain't No Justice!"

Tanstaafl! - An abbreviation for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," meaning, "ya gotta pay as ya go."

Tapdance - See Floor Routine.

Taxi Driver - A street slang term for the combat drug Kamikaze, and others.

Taxilingua - The language spoken exclusively by cab drivers, rumored to have been originally based on English.

Tchort - (Rus.) Literally "Devil". A common expletive.

Team - A gang.

Teamster - A gang member.

Techno Scum - A personally very unpleasant, but technically brilliant individual.
Technician - A corporate slang term for a professional hit-man.
Tek - 1) An item of a highly technical nature. 2) A technician of any kind.

Telecomm - A telephone, normally incorporating both video and audio communication. Also comm.

Tenorio - (spn) Lit. "a ladykiller."

Thirdman - See Fixer.

Thrasher - Yet another slang term for one who delves into hard, slamming music.

ThreeVee - Also 3-V. Holovision. A 3-dimension projection system which has superceded the television as the primary form of information delivery.

Thriller - Of or relating to a thriller gang, its members, or its actions.

Thriller Gang - A type of street gang, specializing in random violence and thrill killing (see also go-gang).

Thumper - A samurai slang term for a grenade, commonly but not always concussional in nature.

Thunderbird LAV. - Low altitude vehicle, vector thrust. Military hoovercraft, Panzer (q.v.)

Tiger - (Net) A military netrunner.

Tight Interfacing - To have sex.

Tin Can - A suit of Powered Armor.

Tip - A token credchip; a very small amount of money.

Tong - (chi) The traditional Chinese equivalent of the Japanese Yakuza.

Tortoise - A hacker term for someone running in the Matrix with a (slow) terminal.

Towntalk - A hybrid street language, not part of any formal group. See also city speak.

Trash Run - See Garbage Detail.

Trid - Three-dimensional successor to video.

Trode Net - A simsense "headband" that allows person without a datajack to "tag along" with a hacker. From, elecTRODE NETwork.

Trog - Short for troglodyte. A derogatory term meant to indicate that an individual is subhuman or extremely ugly or misshapen.

Tuning-Up - The street term for the act of beating a prisoner/captive to elicit a confession.

Twenty-Cent - Of or relating to something from the twentieth century. Also 20-Cen.

Twinkie - A naive, defenseless, vulnerable, or otherwise useless person.

Twitch - A careless, scatterbrained, or otherwise unreliable individual.

Twitchers - Taser and, by extension, any electricity-based weapon.

U2C - Gang slang for a pedestrian. From the abbreviation for, "Upright, Uptight Citizen."

UMS - An abbreviation for "Universal Matrix Standards," the official "default" set of Matrix icons.

UMSC - The "Universal Matrix Standards Consortium," ie. those who decided how the Matrix would look.

Underware - A slang term for form-fitting body armor.

Valkyrie - An assault helicopter or hover vehicle in attack mode. Believed to be derived from a 20-Cen vid, "Apocalypse Now."

Valuta - (Rus.) Literally "foreign currency". Refers to any hard currency.

Vatjob - 1) A person with extensive cyber- or bioware replacement. From the time spent in a nutrient-fluid vat. 2) Organic enhancement by means of vat-grown tissue or muscle.

Very - Hip term for "cool" or "in".

Vidflick - Flat screen entertainment that predates 3D or holographic projection. Old style TV or movie.

Vidiot - A Virtual Reality or video game addict.

VITAS - An abbreviation for Virally Inducted Toxic Allergy Syndrome. The 2010+ version of the Bubonic Plague.

VRcade - A Virtual Reality, Braindance, and/or video game arcade or parlor.

WageSlave - A low-level or non-ambitious, corporate employee. See Shirt.

Wakarimasu-ka? - (jap) Lit. "do you understand?"

Wakatta - (jap) Lit. "all right, I understand."

Waldoes - A common term for any set of remote-controlled mechanical arms, as used in factories and toxin handeling.

Watch-Over - A surveillance job.

Wavy - Cool or smooth.

Wearing Color - Usually associated with streetgangs, to wear clothing with colors or designs which identify you with a specific gang.

Wetware - 1) human augmentation mechanisms based on biochemical methods. E.g. biochemical processors, custom crafted DNA, custom biological tissue, brain implants/grafts, mind/body altering drugs (rare). As opposed to hardware which is based on artificial, physics based methods, e.g. chips. 2) Slang for cyber-augmentation of skills or other mental functions. 3) The human brain (a backhanded reference to normal organic thought processes.) 4) Any original body organ.

Wetwork - Assassination. Murder.

Whacked - Of or relating to the state of being either "high" or insane.

White IC - A passive, defensive, IC program, primarily concerned with tagging & locating a perp's cyberdeck.

Wiggly - Weird or different. Usually referring to a good drug trip.

Wilson - 1) Idiot. 2) Wannabe. Often used as hacker insult.

Wire Boy/Girl - A hacker.

Wired - Equipped with cyberware, especially increased reflexes.

Wirehead - 1) Someone addicted to computers or electronic communication (e.g. a person who would rather hack then eat or have sex). 2) Someone addicted to electric stimulation directly applied to the pleasure centers of the brain, i.e. simsense abuser.

Wiz - Very impressive.

Wizard - A slang term meaning, "great," "wonderful," or "excellent."

Wizzer - A hip term meaning, "great," "fantastic," "terrific," etc. Also wiz.

Wolver - Of or relating to hand spurs.

Word the - The latest gossip or rumors on the street.

Wysiwyg - ("Wizzy-wig") Lit. "no nonsense." From the acronym, "What You See Is What You Get."

X-Heads - Street samurai slang for cross-cut bullets, eg. dum-dums.

Yak - Yakuza. Either a clan member or a clan itself.

Yono - (Kor.) A person who is scum or a low life. (From the Korean "Yonomoseki").

Zaibatsu - (jap) Lit. "a megacorporation." See also keretsu.

Zero - 1) See Blank. 2) To delete or destroy a piece of software. 3) To kill someone. 4) Midnight (From zero-hour.)

Zone: - See Combat Zones.

Zonies: - Of or relating to an armed security patrol or any of its members.]<<<

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These lists are taken from the Cyberpunk Project website. It's pretty much dead now, but I gave credit at the end of the first couple posts.

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