Posts tagged with “slang”
- noun informal
- A really amazingly together guy.
- Source
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- noun informal
- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
- Origin
- “They flip; they thwart.”
- Source
- The World Inside
- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
- Source
- The City & The City
- exclamation
- An oath sworn in the name of humanity’s home star.
- Source
- Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion
- 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 computer.
- Origin
- Corruption of ‘calculator’.
- Source
- Wish Upon a Star
- verb informal
- To make redundant, particularly by technological means.
- Source
- The Panda Coin
- 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.
- Source
- The Shobies’ Story
- verb
- Practising the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah.
- Origin
- Coined by immersers.
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun informal
- A person who is sexually attracted to spacers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘free-fall-sexual-displacement complex’.
- Source
- Aye, and Gomorrah…
- noun informal
- A person who has been made into a cognitive computer.
- Source
- A Deepness in the Sky