Streetslang
Some common terms in the Time of the Red
Beaverville: A safe suburban neighborhood primarily inhabited by mid-level Corporate executives and
their families.
Bonanza: The location of a big score like an abandoned Corporate facility.
Booster: Any member of a gang that affects cyberware, leather clothing, and random violence.
Combat Drugs: Any one of a series of designer
drugs created to increase speed, stamina, and
reflexes.
Chip: Any type of data recording, usually in the form
of small colored, slivers of plastic.
Chippin' In: To buy cyberware for the first time.
To cast your lot with a group. To connect with a
machine.
Chombatta (Choomba): Neo-Afro American
slang for friend, family member.
CHOOH2: Pronounced "Choo-Two". Streetslang for
alcohol, as used in vehicle power plants. The vast
majority of vehicles in the Time of the Red are fueled
by an advanced form of alcohol with a higher
burning temperature than normal methanol.
Chromatic Rock: A type of heavy metal characterized by heavy electronics, simple rhythms, and
violent lyrics.
Chromer: A 21st-century heavy metal rock fan.
Conapt: A condominium apartment in a Corporate
Zone.
Cybered-Up: To get as much cyberware implanted
as possible before going over the Edge.
Data Term: A street corner information machine, with
a screen, CitiNet inputs, and keyboard.
'Dorphs: Streetslang for synthetic endorphins, a
designer drug that increases healing powers, limits
fatigue, and produces a "rush" like a second wind.
Exotic: A human biosculpted with non-human elements; fur, long ears, fangs, etc.
The Face: The representative of a Megacorporation
for legal purposes.
Flatline: To kill. A dead person or thing.
Go LEO: To make the trip into Low Earth Orbit, i.e., to
visit one of the inner space stations.
Gyro: Small one- or two-seat helicopters, used mostly
in police work and Corporate strike operations.
Handle: A nickname; a working name you are known
by on The Street.
Hydro: Streetslang for hydrogen fuel, used to power
some vehicles in the 2000s.
Input/Output: A mechanistic term for a casual
lover.
Lawman: Police officers or other law enforcers.
Originally derived from Captain Max Hammerman's
post-war police task force known on The Street as
"The Lawmen", this streetslang has come to be synonymous with any and all law enforcers.
Mainline: A term for your partner in a serious, longterm relationship.
Meatspace: A term commonly used by Netrunners
to refer to the physical world.
Netrun: To interface with a NET Architecture and
hack into its programs and controls. Also used to
refer to running the Old NET until the advent of the
4th Corp War.
Night Market: Off-the-grid, temporary marketplaces set up by groups of Fixers with solid connections. In the Time of the Red a Night Market is the
best place to find new cyberware and gear.
Midnight Market: Top secret, temporary marketplaces put up by high level Fixers to sell highly
illegal goods. Powerful members of the criminal
underworld often hold their meetings in private
rooms in a Midnight Market.
Polymer One Shot: Any cheap, plastic pistol,
usually in the 5 to 9mm range.
Posergang: Any group whose members all affect a
specific look, style, or bodysculpt job.
R.A.B.I.D.S.: A particularly deadly form of black
ICE spread throughout the Old NET after the
death of their creator, Netrunning Legend Rache
Bartmoss.
Ripperdoc: A surgeon specializing in implanting
illegal cyberware.
Ronin: A freelance assassin or mercenary. Usually
considered to be untrustworthy.
Samurai: A Corporate assassin or mercenary, hired
to protect Corporation property or make strikes
against other Corporate holdings.
Slammit On: To get violent; to attack someone
without reason.
Stuffit: To have sex. Also, to forget about
something.
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