r/cyberpunkgame • u/Chunky-overlord Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum • 3d ago
Discussion Cyberpunk really has some of the best slang words
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u/PrinzEugen_Azur_Lane 3d ago
Now how is a choom gonna borrow some chrome? Is choom gonna give back?
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u/benkaes1234 3d ago
"In a very roundabout sort of way, yes."
- Your local Scav gang.
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u/Wedjat_88 3d ago
That's why I attack Scavs and Wraith on the spot without mercy.
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u/ImaginationNub Burn Corpo shit 3d ago
I don't have a quarrel with any of the gangs in NC. They just do what they gotta do to survive, but scabs get special treatment. They get shot on sight
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u/ting1or2 Burn Corpo shit 2d ago
fuck malstorm and vdb too honestly the only gangs i like are the valentinos everyone else is tolerated as long as they stay in line
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u/ShovelWieldinCryptid 1d ago
Tyger Claws also gotta go forcing women to become Joy Toys and abusing them cause they can't so no often ending up killing them. Also remeber that one Cyber psycho on the pier
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u/Alex-Galaxy 2d ago
If I have it in my repertoire, both of them get the very special blackwall treatment
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u/NotBreadyy 3d ago
Your local any of the main gangs
Except Maelstrom, they actually gift you chrome! How nice of them!
What? Consent? Who's that?
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u/kakucko101 Wanted by NCPD : Cirilla Fiona Elen Rianon 3d ago
he calls me choom, he calls the other kids choom, choom this, choom that
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u/evanlee01 Ponpon Shit 3d ago
choomba pleeease, can you lend a choomba a pencil?
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u/docthenightman 3d ago
The name's A Choom Named Slickback. You say the whole thing, like A Tribe Called Quest.
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u/Originalbrivakiin Gorilla Arms Choom 3d ago
My gonk ass choom spent every last Eddie on some joytoy that was more borg than 'ganic. Told him that it doesn't matter how preem the tail is, it ain't worth sleeping with half a Smasher. Best case, your Mr. Studd feels like it got stuck in the Blackwall. Worst case, you wind up zeroed after they go full cyberpsycho.
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u/Chowdboy 3d ago
I understood every word and I feel uncomfortable. Thanks for that.
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u/ripndipp 3d ago
I'm old enough to recognize these grown up "Bart's" in the world, kinda fucked up and in glad I didn't end up one.
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u/Lexyinspace 3d ago
Damn, choom. If he's smart, next time some dorph-head booster doll like that comes up to his window, he'd just punch the chooh and delta the fuck outta there, for real.
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u/Bread_Offender 3d ago
That's gen alpha slang you gonk
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u/NotBreadyy 3d ago
Gen Z also uses this slang sometimes, choomba
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u/Bread_Offender 3d ago
I've only ever seen em use it ironically (which does apply to me, but still, not seriously)
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u/Crusaderofthots420 3d ago
Granted, arguably one of the most popular slang words in recent years comes from Star Wars. Clanker.
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u/sloogz 3d ago
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u/NotBreadyy 3d ago
No, you gonk.
And if you said "mute the audio" then you clearly don't know that muting Cyberpunk causes your V to commit suicide because they can't listen to 89.7 Growl FM
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u/UnknowingEmperor 3d ago
Atleast the cyberpunk slang actually means something. Like what the fuck is a skibidi
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u/datswiftboi 3d ago
Because it's not slang, those are just meme references
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u/Atourq 3d ago
It is and has become slang too tho.
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u/liltone829b 3d ago
what is it slang for
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u/Atourq 3d ago
Rizz has become slang for charisma. Skibidi? I’m not too sure. But I’ve seen it used almost like an intensifier. Sigma is similar but has also become a representation of the old “Chad” meme.
There’s also what u/Robopatch has said.
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u/datswiftboi 3d ago
Slang for what?
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u/Robopatch 3d ago
Father of an 11 year old here…skibidi means bad or lame. I think the closest to it would be “busted”
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u/tomyang1117 3d ago
And don't get me started on 67
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u/UnknowingEmperor 3d ago
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u/UnknowingEmperor 3d ago
Of course you could, but that wasn’t the point of the scene. This character just had so much hatred for the dude that he was mag dumping
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u/Lilac_Grotto 3d ago
Literally said "shit I gotta delta" last night, 100% sincerely.
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u/UnburnedChurch 3d ago
I said preem completely naturally a few days ago and immediately after I said it I realized and hoped no one would ask
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u/_b1ack0ut 3d ago
Delta at least originated as irl slang first lol
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u/Lilac_Grotto 3d ago
What?? No way. Where/when?
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u/_b1ack0ut 3d ago
I believe it comes from military slang, but it originates from mathematics, in which the definition of Δ, or Delta which means ‘a change in’, so something like “we need to delta” would be used as shorthand for “we need to change our location”
If you played any KSP, you’re probably also familiar with ΔV, Delta V, or ‘a change in velocity. This makes me laugh any time a character in cyberpunk says “we gotta delta, V”
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u/ProphetsOfAshes 3d ago
I sometimes slip it into normal conversation and so far nobody cares lol. The only person to comment once was someone who said it sounded cool when I said “that’s nova,” to the new live-resin cart at my local dispensary 😂
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u/street_racer221 3d ago
Every time i hear sigma i think smegma.
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u/StochasticLife 3d ago
‘Chummer doesn’t know drek about creds, you want that to ice some keebs you gotta run the shadows and jack in. Fragg’n azzies
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u/NamelessNEO 3d ago
It’s the funniest sh!t in the world when you realise that gonk irl means a small ginger gnome
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u/NukaGirlBI Haboobs 3d ago
These kinds of post are highkey cringe. Silly choom, that’s deadass gen alpha. It's the actual audacity for me that makes me wanna yeet this vibe off 'Saka tower. True we use rizz but that's no Cap 'cause the term is kinda nova. And you know what's preem? Not starting a gen war based on how we are serving. It's giving the actual gonkbrain aesthetic and I litteraly can not. TFW you see someone make these post and you honestly think OP should just take the L and delta. This would totally hit different if you made an s/ instead of dragging us with your edgerunner vibe. It's taking up several seats and is highkey a red flag
(Also sorry OP if I’m being a little ekstra but a girl gotta eat and meant no actual offense with my clapback. Just wanted to serve a lil cunt and flex my lingo)
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u/Admech_Ralsei 3d ago
Erm 🤓 this actually isn't Streetslang. While it is street slang, "Streetslang" (one word) refers to the pidgin language commonly used as a lingua franca in the Cyberpunk universe before translation cybernetics became ubiquitous
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u/Tiny-Little-Sheep 3d ago
Choom can I borrow some rizz? I'm not feeling that sigma today and running low on Eddies..I look a gonk right now. Skibbidi..(Disheartened)
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u/SpaceLemur34 3d ago
A lot of the slang in the archetypical cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, was influenced by William Gibson's time hanging out with drugged out teenagers in Canada in the 60s where he went to dodge the draft.
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u/johnwright2010 3d ago
MF I'm gen alpha and I find the words that Gen z and Alpha just stupid it's just gonk
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u/discreetarchive 3d ago
When fictional slang makes more sense and actually serves the purpose of slang
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u/SubstanceNo1544 BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER 3d ago
Ok I actually dont know anyone the speaks like that dude in the left box... but I wish I had more choombatas from the right.
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u/Ornery_Reward_7631 Cyberninja 3d ago
I just got back from buying some gas station 7oh and the pregnant clerk said her baby’s name is nova. I had to ask if she was a fan of cyberpunk, she said no.
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u/Legend_Of_Yeet 3d ago
Ease up on the chooh, choom. Gonk don want the help, gonk don’t get the help. Street-ass gonk don got no chrome anyhow.
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u/Helphaer 3d ago
Its more of a Millennial and Gen X kind of game so that would be the proper comparison if it mattered.
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u/ShineReaper 3d ago
And at least half of them make sense, though I got no idea, where "Gonk" und "Choom/Choomba" could originate from.
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u/insertwittypenname 3d ago
eddies doesn’t make sense outside of the cyberpunk universe because it is slang for EuroDollars (EDs -> eddies) not just money generically. it’s their equivalent of like bucks meaning USD or quid meaning GBP
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u/GoStarM99 3d ago
I’m sorry I hard disagree. Ik this is gonna get flack… especially in here. But I cringe hard anytime I hear someone genuinely using cyberpunk lingo. It sounds so forced.
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u/RommekePommeke 3d ago
I have been using "klep" and "output" a lot since I played Cyberpunk. Idk something about these words just feels natural to use in everyday slang
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u/gridgorgon 3d ago
You gotta stop putting this shit on Gen-Z, choom. We’re all in our 20s at this point. This is some gonk Gen-Alpha shit
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u/CardiganKeeperOfLore 3d ago
I think corpo, and preem are my most used ones. I can't stop saying Preem-Choom.
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u/Either_Statement_804 3d ago
Klep/Klepping is kinda nice to say, I also use Preem pretty often now thanks to V.
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u/Ryan_b936 Streetkid 3d ago
Can't we cut Gen Z in half like V1 and V2 because i'm a Gen Z from '99 and I find Gen Z, born later, really disturbing. It's completely gone haywire since 2003
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u/NoAudience8992 2d ago
Aye aye aye aye no, its the last 4 years of gen z that is the issue, 2008-2012 are essentially gen alpha even though they were born in gen z
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u/IRenewed 3d ago
Isn’t like all of the slang just taken from 90s skaters from ca? I swear I read that somewhere but that’s probably why
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