cyber

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈsʌɪ.bə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.bəɹ/

Adjective

cyber (not comparable)

1. Of, or having to do with, the Internet; Alternative spelling of cyber-
2. (informal) Cybergoth.
   • 1998, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin

     She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.

   • 2007, Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo

     ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock.

Verb

cyber (cybers, present participle cybering; past and past participle cybered)

1. (slang) To engage in cybersex.

   Wanna cyber?

Noun

1. (singulare tantum) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.
   • 2004, Henry Linger, ‎Julie Fisher, ‎W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice ↗

     These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

   • 2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber ↗

     The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

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