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cyber

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsaɪ.bə//
  • United States//ˈsaɪ.bəɹ//
  • //ˈsʌɪ.bəɹ//

Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.

    I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.

  2. 2

    informalCybergoth.

    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.

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

    No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.

Etymology

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

verb

  1. 1

    datedTo engage in cybersex.

    Wanna cyber?

Forms

past tense
cybered
past participle
cybered
present participle
cybering
third person singular
cybers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).