cyberpunk

noun cyberpunks

1. 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. But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.
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. […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^([sic]), Bruce Sterling […]
4. uncountable A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers. 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 radi