- noun informal
- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
- Origin
- “They flip; they thwart.”
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- The World Inside
- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
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- The City & The City
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider
- noun informal
- A person without cybernetic brain implants.
- Source
- The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice
- verb informal
- To travel in a spaceship that is nearly as fast as light.
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- The Shobies’ Story
- verb
- Practising the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah.
- Origin
- Coined by immersers.
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- Embassytown
- noun informal
- A person who is sexually attracted to spacers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘free-fall-sexual-displacement complex’.
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- Aye, and Gomorrah…
- noun informal
- A person who has been made into a cognitive computer.
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- A Deepness in the Sky