Shadowrun Slang Dictionary Page 1
A B C D E F G H I J K L
| Ace | Best in their field |
| Aesthetics | Simple cosmetic suregery. |
| Angel | A benefactor, especially an unknown one |
| Arc | An arcology |
| Arctic | Cool [As in It's cool] and anti-artic [not cool] |
| ASIST | "Artificial Sensory Induction System Technology." The industry name for simsense. |
| Avatar | Decker slang for a personal Matrix icon. Also called, a persona |
| Awakened Creature | A creature altered genetically by the return of magic. |
| Badge | Police or corporate security. |
| Bagged and Tagged | To die |
| Bakebrain | General purpose derogatory term indicating someone with limited or damage mental faculties ( idiot, jerk, moron.) |
| Ballerinas | Reflex boosted female assassins in the employ of a major corp |
| Bennie | An out-of-towner |
| Berserkide | Any combat drug, particularly Black Lace. |
| Biff | Airhead, bimbo |
| Bioroid | A full-body conversion cyborg. |
| Biosoft | Cybernetic software chips that incorporate biological components in their construction. Thought to be superior in performance to purely artificial chips. |
| Biosystem Overstress | The often fatal, heart attack-like condition, caused by excessive bioware implantation. |
| Bioware | Any biological enhancement or replacement. |
| Bithead | Slang for a decker or "nerdy" computer enthusiast |
| Bit Jockey | Programmer. |
| Black Agent | (Corp) An illegal operative. |
| Black Ops | Any unofficial, corporate shadow-operations, either in-house or hired-out. |
| Black Ice | Illegal countermeasure software which causes physical harm or death to an intruder |
| Blade | A professional soldier or fighter, specializing in edged weapons. |
| Bleed | To attack, injure, or kill. |
| Blood Money | Income from the illegal sale of organs to a body bank. |
| Blowing Code | A decker term for inputing or uploading information. |
| Body Sculpt | The process of having the body totally re-molded by vat-grown tissue & advanced plastic surgery. |
| Booster | Gang member that uses cyberware, leathers, and violence as a way of life. |
| Bounts | Bounty hunters |
| Bopper | A robot |
| Brain Tap | A datajack or a chipjack |
| Breeder | ork slang for a "normal" human |
| Brush-up | A shadowrun to collect background information. |
| BTL chip | A "Better Than Life" chip, also called "DreamChips". An illegal cyber-data chip which provides the user a combination of artificial reality coupled with direct stimulation of different centers of the brain, highly addictive. |
| Buck Rogers | Derogatory phrase for an individual obsessed with high-tech weaponry |
| Buff | To attack viciously with intent to maim or kill. |
| Bug-Out | To flee from a situation or area. |
| Bushi | Code of Honor. A key concept for most edgerunners. |
| Business | In slang context, crime. Also "Biz." |
| Buzz | Go away. Buzz off |
| Cacked | Killed |
| Carpet | A electronic warfare jamming device. |
| Causing static | Starting trouble. |
| Chilled | A hip term meaning, to be cool, together. |
| Chipped | Senses, skills, reflexes, muscles, and so on, enhanced by cyberware |
| Choob | Jerk, nerd, weirdo. |
| Chuck | Caucasian person. Usually derogatory. |
| Chromatic | Heavy Metal music [Chromer Slang for the fans] |
| Chromer | Slang for metalheads, heavy metal fans |
| Chummer | Pal or Buddy |
| Cinema | A movie, usually in tri-d |
| Clavie | A playful or familiar cut-down or "slam," used among friends. Any person who lives in an enclave. |
| Cleaner | An assassin used to eliminate all traces of a mission, including the participants. |
| Collar | A white-collar worker, usually a low-level employee of a megacorp. Derogatory |
| Combat Drugs | Designer drugs for military use |
| Comm | The telephone. |
| Corp | Corporation, corporate. |
| Cowboy | A decker/netrunner. |
| Crashcart | Docwagon rival (paramedics) |
| Creased | Killed. |
| Cred | Money, typically electronic funds. |
| Credstick | A form of electronic currency |
| CSC | A "Computer Sabotage Consultant". A tactful form of address for a netrunner. |
| Cube | A decker who operates within the confines of the law. |
| Culture Vulture | A member of the media. |
| Cyberdeck | Hardware used to access cyberspace. |
| Cyberware | Any cybernetic/bionic body implant which replaces or augments a specific body function. |
| Cylon | Derogatory term for corporate security personnel. |
| Dadie | Knowledge or skill chip. |
| Dandelion Eater | An Elf, very insulting. |
| Dataslave | a corporate decker or a data processing employee. |
| Datasteal | Theft of data from a computer, usually by decking. |
| Deck | A cyberdeck or to use a cyberdeck illegally. |
| Dead Presidents | Old United States paper currency. |
| DEBS | Transvestites, a type of posergang. |
| Deck | Cyberdeck |
| Decker | A pirate cyberdeck user. Derived from 20th century "hacker." |
| Deckhead | A Simsense addict. Or anyone with a datajack/ chipjack. |
| Deckjockey | An expert cyberdeck user, usually a specialist and covertly accessing and stealing from corporate databases. |
| Delta | A smuggling aircraft. |
| Deniable | Saumrai slang for anyone hired to disavow, after the fact, all knowledge about a hosed run & participants. |
| Derms/Dorphs | Designer drugs thatincrease healing rate and limit fatigue.. |
| De-Rezz | To kill someone or to terminate a program. |
| Dinks | Any member of a rival boostergang. |
| Dirtnap | Slang for death, as in "he's takin' a dirtnap." |
| Dis | To treat with disrespect. |
| Doc Box | Medic's instrument kits, usually run at least partially by an expert system. |
| Doc Wagon | Ambulence/paramedic. |
| Domo Arigato | Thank you (japanese) |
| Doughboy | Someone wearing too much body armor. |
| Drek | shit. |
| Drek Run | Any shadowrun of very little pay or challenge, offered when good work is scarce, or to newbies as a test. |
| Duck | A person who carries more weapons than could possibly be needed. |
| Dumped | Involuntary ejection from the matrix. |
| Dust | To kill. |
| Electrocur | A guard dog with augmented offensive capabilities. |
| Enclave | Corporate subsidized housing aka the projects. |
| Exec | Corporate executive. |
| Exotic | An obviously biosculpted individual, usually with non-human features |
| Extraction | A corporate kidnapping. |
| Ferryman | An expert assassin. |
| Fetishman | A talismonger, a dealer in magical items. |
| Firelane | The clear area a weapon can put its shots into |
| Fixer | A go-between, deal maker, information broker. |
| Flash | Anything spectacular or Hard currency |
| Flatline | To die or to kill someone. |
| Flatlined | killed in the matrix by Black IC. |
| Flea | A non-netrunner who accompanies a netrunner on a netrun. |
| Flickercladding | A synthetic plastic material impregnated with fiber optics and temperature gauges designed to respond to skin temperature. |
| Fodder | A derogatory term fixers use for solos. |
| Footprint | A characteristic "hacking" style, one you can follow by seeing before. |
| Fossil | Someone who refuses to give up old ways. |
| Frag | Common swear word. |
| Fringe, The | Edges of society where nomads hang out, barrens. |
| Frob | To alter control settings in a random or mischievous fashion. |
| Fuse | To kill someone possessing large quantities of cyberware. |
| Gaijin | A derogatory term for a foreigner or outsider. (japaneses) |
| Gargoyle | Someone whose job is gathering intelligence in the field, normally bedecked with surveillance gear. |
| Gato | A smooth operator, cool person. |
| Geek | To kill. |
| Ghost | A deckjockey who assists a "physical entry team" by entered and controlling the computer of the target site. |
| Gibson | Someone who tells the future; a psychic. |
| Glitter Folk | Rich people who only have time and money. |
| Goblinization | Normal humans who metamorphosed, usually at puberty. |
| Go-ganger | A bike gang member |
| Goose | Street slang for a prostitute. |
| Gothics | A posergang whose motif is death and old b&w horror movies. |
| Grunge | A derogatory term for an ork. |
| Guardian Angel | Solo on a bodyguard job. |
| Gutter Jumpers | Claim jumpers among the homeless, squatters. |
| Gyro | A small one or two man helicopter. |
| Hai | Yes (japanese) |
| Halfer | Slang for a dwarf, derogatory. |
| Handle | A working nick-name by which one is known on the streets |
| Hard | Cool, hip, tough |
| Hardwired | Having Cyberware or unable to change, inflexible options. |
| Heatwave | A police crackdown. |
| Hikunuki | To kidnap from a corporation "to extract." (japanese) |
| Hit and Run | A shadowrun to drop viruses into a computer system. |
| Hitcher Jacks | Cyberdeck attachments that allow non-cybered companions to accompany a decker into the Matrix. |
| Hitmage | A magic-using assassin. |
| Hoi | Hi, Hello. |
| Holo | A holographically generated image. |
| Homerun | A shadowrun made on own initiative, and for personal gain, as opposed to being hired and paid by another to perform a specific task. |
| Hoop | Behind. Backside |
| Hosed | Louse up, screw up royally. |
| Hydro | Hydrogen fuel or anyone crazy enough to take it as a drug. |
| ICE | Security software. Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics. |
| Icebreaker | Any program or software designed to penetrate ice. |
| Info Bro | Information broker. |
| Input | A girlfriend, female companion. |
| Insertion | The delivery of a team near or to its operational area. |
| Jack | Jack in, or enter cyberspace. Jack out, or to leave cyberspace |
| Jake | A homosexual prostitute or a hustler. |
| Jamming | Sex or moshing heavily in a band |
| Jander | To walk in an arrogant manner, to strut. |
| JoyBoy/JoyGirl | Prostitute |
| Juvie/Juve | A legal minor, eg. anyone under 8-years-old. |
| Kamikaze | Any suicide pilot, or a tailored amphetamine combat drug. |
| Keeb | An Elf, very insulting. After a discontinued advertising campaign (Keebler). |
| Keiretsu | A corporate, cartel, or conglomerate. (japanese) |
| Kibble Card | Government food ration card. |
| Kick Artist | Street slang, person hired to threaten or beat up someone, but not to kill them |
| Kludge | A makeshift or temporary solution to a problem, usually sloppy and inefficient. |
| Knife Bullets | Armor piercing ammunition. |
| Know, The | Knowledge or information. |
| Kobun | A Yakuza clan member. |
| Kobun Wa | Good evening. (japanese) |
| Konnichi Wa | Good afternoon. (japanese) |
| Krovvy | Bloody. (Russian) |
| Kuromaku | A fixer, one who arranges. |
| Latch Jockey | Digital hardware designer |
| Leash | A corporate safeguard implanted into an employee to ensure loyalty and continued service. Like a cortex bomb. |
| Leech | Street-doc or med-tech, particularly one that is expensive or unrelaible. |
| Liquid Knuckles | Any powerful chemical akin to Mace. |
| Lone Star | Private police force used by some cities. |
| Lurker | A decker who only sneaks into systems to look around, never taking anything. |
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