Glossary of Terms and Slang
For 2084 Quartet
PLEASE NOTE: The following material is intended for mature readers only.
A Note on Language for 2084 Quartet
It is inevitable, in a work of speculative fiction, that futuristic technologies, technical terms, and even everyday slang appear in the course of the narrative. Accordingly, a Glossary of Terms and Slang has been provided below. For the convenience of the reader, the first time one of these neologisms appears in each of the four novels in the series, it will be marked in boldface and hyperlinked to this Glossary, where a definition is available. Additionally, on occasion a non-English language will be used in the dialogue among characters. While no direct translations have been provided, never fear. The reader will be able, quite readily, to discern the meaning of these utterances within the context of the story.
Glossary of Terms and Slang
abstainant: EVe term for a nonsexual person; someone who abstains from sexual activity of any kind.
Administer: title and office of the elected leader of the EVe Caucus; the EVe head of state.
adverbot: “advertising robot”; computer-generated people appearing in the innumerable product advertisements streaming in TexArc on the Simulacrum upright.
advocacy project: an advertising campaign designed and performed by the Signification Committee of EVe in order to promote social justice and equality; see also “alterity” and “signification.”
afro: TexArc slang for persons of African descent or otherwise suspiciously dark skin; pejorative.
Airman (men): Terd(s) serving in ArcAir.
aligning in: tuning in or selecting a network stream or channel.
all4s: TexArc term referring to all four viewscreens of the ipatch; see also “Simulacrum.”
alterity: EVe term for the communal mindset resulting from the public ownership of the means of production; an overriding public concern for social justice and equality (as opposed to the fetishistic private concern for rapacity); originating from the old Scandinavian social-economic model of the early 21st century; the opposite of “disciplinarity”; see also “Marksoc” and “paxrevolution.”
ArcAir: TexArc air forces; see also “Airman.”
ArcGround: TexArc land forces; see also “CorpTroop.”
ArcNet: TexArc internet protection and disruption forces; the most elite and feared military unit in TexArc; see also “Netsman”; also, the name for the TexArc internet system.
Arcs (The): TexArc slang for McSlurrys.
ArcSea: TexArc naval forces.
ArcSpace: TexArc space forces; see also “GLASS.”
assemblers: self-replicating, molecular-level nanobots; digital matter; see also “GGE/Gray Goo Effect” and “GNR.”
Attack Team: EVe military term for an offensive force of fighters; see also “Maneuvers.”
aud: “audio.”
averagejoe: TexArc slang for an everyday person; a regular guy; see also “commonsense joe.”
bangbone: TexArc slang for the erect penis.
beerbent/bent: TexArc slang for drunk.
bellyfart(s): TexArc slang for feedtube regurgitation experienced by Servs; see also “shituber” and “tubed on.”
BHC: “Boston-to-Houston Crescent”; the most densely populated regional division of TexArc; see also “corpent.”
biggov: “big government”; TexArc term for centralized government; pejorative.
bigmac(s): TexArc slang for lies, exaggerations; formerly “whopper(s).”
bigpic: “big picture”; TexArc slang for seeing things globally; taking all factors into account.
biz: “business”; TexArc term for any money-making venture.
bizdumb: TexArc academic Terd slang for Crats; pejorative.
bodyenhance: “body enhancement”; one’s idealized, fantasy avatar when having a virtual experience; see also “digiland” and “virbod.”
BoiCity: in TexArc, the former Boise City; a relatively minor meg of the central IMS.
bondclass: EVe term for the underclass of other societies; a vassal or wage-slave.
bossman: TexArc slang for anyone higher up the corporate ladder than yourself; see also “ceo.”
bot: short for “robot.”
bottomline: TexArc term for that which is most important.
brainintegrated: any brain-machine interface or bio-implanted device; cybernetics.
brainslow: TexArc slang for foolish, stupid, or mentally impaired; considered the natural state of Servs, non-whites, and women.
buy the firm (to): TexArc slang expression for dying in combat or being killed under adverse circumstances.
cap: “capital”; TexArc slang for money.
capitalgreed: TexArc term for capitalism; see also “mammonism” and “smithprofitism.”
capitalserve: TexArc term meaning to conserve or to save money.
Caucus (the): the elected legislative body governing EVe.
ceo (the): TexArc term for the top corporate position; the big bossman who runs the TexArc corp; see also “corpexec,” “Crat,” and “subceo.”
christer(s): TexArc slang for fanatical, born-again Christians; pejorative.
closedcomm: “closed communication”; any private or secure line of communication.
clutter (the): the hype and chatter streaming over a network; news, advertisements, entertainment, and the like; that which must be broken through in order to reach an audience with any type of commercial or political message.
cokecola: a cocaine-based, sugar-laced soda drink very popular in TexArc, especially among Servs.
comm: short for “communication.”
commonsense joe: TexArc slang for having a practical view on matters or for being a clear-thinking person.
communicant(s): elected representative(s) serving in the Caucus of EVe.
companyman: TexArc slang for someone who follows with dedication the corporate status quo; positive or pejorative; see also “doubtom” and “wonderboy.”
conplant/conplantbot: “consciousness planted robot”; an animal consciousness downloaded into a Robot Hexapod (RHex); or a human consciousness downloaded into a superintelligent nanoassembler swarm.
conscientização: radical consciousness raising leading to deep cultural awareness; education designed to liberate both the oppressed and the oppressor from the victimization of an oppressive system; a developmental processes wherein the individual moves from magical to naïve to critical social consciousness, the outcome being a society working in common to create new and liberatory norms, rules, procedures, and policies.
constituents/constituency (the): EVe term for its citizens; the citizenry.
corp: TexArc short version for “corporation.”
corpanthem: “corporate anthem”; TexArc term for the official song in praise of corporation; anthem title: “O Privatization, Deregulation, Globalization!”
corpatriot/corpatriotism: “corporate patriot/patriotism”; mindless dedication to TexArc; see also “jingofrenzy.”
corpenemy: “corporate enemy”; any opponent to TexArc; any foreign threat to Corpfeud.
corpent(s): “corporate entity”; TexArc term for the five major regional divisions of TexArc; see also “BHC,” “GLR,” “IMS,” “PC,” and “PTA.”
corpexec: “corporate executive”; TexArc term for any high-ranking position within the corporation; see also “ceo,” “Crat,” and “subceo.”
Corpfeud: “corporate feudalism”; the current political-economic formation of TexArc predicated on a neo-manorial system of giant, more or less self-sufficient centers of population operating within a larger, corporate-wide free market and consumer-driven paradigm; see also “capitalgreed,” “mammonism,” “meg,” and “smithprofitism.”
CorpHQ: “Corporate HeadQuarters”; the TexArc corporate seat of power; see also “Waco Great Pyramid.”
CorpTroop(s)/CorpTrooper(s): “corporate troop(s)/trooper(s)”; TexArc term for infantry soldier; see also “ArcGround” and “Groundsman.”
Countermeasures: the intelligence agency of EVe.
counterpitch: term for a commercial or advertising that attempts to negate a rival advertisement or idea; see also “pitch.”
Crat: TexArc term for the ruling corporate class; see also “corpexec.”
CratVillage: luxurious, fortified neighborhoods where Crats reside within the central walled district of a TexArc meg; specifically, those areas furthest away from the outer wall that separates the Gater District from the Parks.
cred(s): short for workcreds; see also “workcreds.”
credsdebt: “workcreds debt”; what a Serv owes in workcreds.
credsgrade(s): “workcreds grade(s)”; TexArc term for interest rates at which workcreds are to be repaid; see also “credsdebt” and “credshole.”
credshole: “workcreds hole”; TexArc term for personal debt in workcreds; see also “credsdebt.”
credscard: “workcreds card”; TexArc term for a card enabling Servs to purchase goods and services with labor credit; see also “workcreds.”
credsgoon(s): “workcreds goon(s)”; TexArc slang for a debt collector.
credspending: both “credit spending” and “credits pending”; virtually interchangeable TexArc terms for buying with workcreds and for how many workcreds a Serv is in debt; see also “workcreds.”
crewtalk: TexArc slang for the specialized vocabulary of any given job; also, job instruction or information.
Cultural Construct: TexArc corporate division responsible for propagating over the Simulacrum the benefits of Corpfeud; headquartered at the Yale School of Reconstruction; see also “Signification Committee” and “Vieworld.”
datacompel: TexArc term meaning to enact behavioral control techniques on populations via the use of big data collection and analysis, continuous and ubiquitous surveillance, machine learning and intelligence, emotion analytics, and a variety of applied social adjustment procedures that prompt/induce/oblige outcomes predetermined by those in power.
daytrade (daytrading): TexArc term for the constant stock market transactions taking place within the corporation.
deadcount: TexArc term for death toll.
deadjobber(s): TexArc slang for a Serv working an endless line of temporary, dead-end jobs; also, a term for Servs in general.
deadprofit(s): “dead profit(s)”; TexArc practice of paying a sum of DollArcs to the families of Terds or Crats killed in the line of military or corporate duty.
deepsloops: EVe deep-diving stealth submarines.
democratize (to): TexArc term for the overwhelming military conquest of an enemy, domestic or foreign; to squash, control, subdue, kill; see also “urbicide” and “urbpass.”
descend shell: ArcSpace one-man, remote-controlled pod vehicle for inserting CorpTroops from shuttle orbit to ground positions.
Die Gemeinschaft: “The Community” or “The Communion”; EVe term for a nanomorph swarm; see also “flitter nanobots.”
digiland: “digital land”; TexArc term for the virtual environment in which Terds (and, to a lesser extent, Crats) prefer to work; see also “emostim,” “fivesensestim,” “stim,” and “taste.”
disciplinarity: EVe term for Foucault’s concept of “Truth and Power”; the panoptic control and subject-formation of the mammonistic modern state; the opposite of “alterity.”
Dmega: “double mega”; TexArc slang for really, really big or important.
DollArcs: TexArc currency.
doublego: TexArc slang for performing a task with extreme urgency.
doubtom: TexArc slang for a doubting Thomas; more precisely, anyone who does not buy into corporate indoctrination hook, line, and sinker; see also “companyman” and “wonderboy.”
downleft: the bottom left quadrant viewscreen (wearer’s perspective) of the ipatch; this screen carries the entertainment stream Youchoose.
downright: the bottom right quadrant viewscreen (wearer’s perspective) of the ipatch; this screen carries the job-seeking stream Brandyou.
drone (the): TexArc slang for the never-ending talk streaming over Vieworld.
dude: TexArc slang for guy, fellow, chap; generic.
dykebitch: TexArc slang for a Terd woman with any standing, authority, or ability to speak her mind.
emostim: “emotional stimulation”; TexArc term for the emotional impact of a bio-implant electrostimulation experience; see also “digiland,” “fivesensestim,” “stim,” and “taste.”
emp-grenade/emp: “electromagnetic pulse grenade”; common EVe weapon used to disable advanced machinery.
entrepretunity: “entrepreneur opportunity”; TexArc term for life itself; all the world.
euroloser: “European loser”; TexArc slang for someone from EVe; pejorative.
EVe: formerly the EU or European Union; a socialistic commonwealth of erstwhile nation states extending currently from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains; during process of consolidation the “U” was changed to the Latinate “V” and the “e” then became understood; originating from the old Scandinavian social-economic model of the early 21st century; see also “alterity” and “Marksoc.”
EVeWave: the EVe internet system.
facetime: TexArc corpexec term for a meeting, conference, or some manner of public exposure.
feed (the): TexArc term for the information-entertainment stream coming over the Simulacrum; to broadcast image and voice over a communications network; see also “stream.”
feedhoax: any manner of sham stream over a network; misinformation.
feedtube: an exterior hose connecting directly into the stomach installed in TexArc Servs for the more efficient consumption of fast food; see also “McSlurrys” and “The Arcs.”
fellowshipride: Wobbly concept meaning solidarity among Servs.
fighter: EVe term for a Maneuvers soldier.
fivesensestim: “five sense stimulation”; TexArc term for the physical impact of a bio-implant electrostimulation experience; see also “digiland,” “emostim,” “stim,” and “taste.”
flitter nanobots: flock-forming miniature robots; see also “Die Gemeinschaft” and “nanomorph.”
Foenix: a meg in TexArc; the former Phoenix.
foray team: EVe Maneuvers and Countermeasures term for a small infiltration squad sent on a mission into hostile territory.
fotoID: TexArc corporate identity cards and database of individuals.
freak: a computer security trap or trick designed to catch or to thwart network intrusion; also “to freak”; see also “slice,” “slicer,” and “trail.”
freemarket: in TexArc, the holy of holies.
frenzychrister(s): TexArc term for evangelical Christian; religious fanatic; pejorative or honorific depending upon point of view; see also “holyroller” and “TDer.”
Gater: TexArc term for the educated corporate class who live within the walls of the central Gater District of a meg; see also “Crat” and “Terd.”
Gater District: the central, walled district of a meg nearest to the Pyramid and heavily fortified; where the educated and ruling corporate classes of TexArc live and work; see also “CratVillage” and “TerdTowne.”
GaterPol: “Gater Police”; special security forces that protect the Gater District of a meg.
gengineering: “genetic engineering”; see also “GGE.”
GGE/Gray Goo Effect: the phenomenon of self-replicating, molecular-level nanobots potentially turning the natural world entirely into digital matter; were these assemblers ever to begin to self-replicate beyond human control, everything could become, in effect, a mass of inanimate gray goo; see also “GNR.”
GLASS: “GLobal Area Strike System”; the space-based weapons system used by TexArc to dominate the globe; see also “ArcSpace.”
Glassea (the): “glass sea”; generic TexArc term for Middle East oil fields after the region was democratized by tactical nuclear weapons; the allusion is to the resulting extensive plains of fused sands.
glassy (the): TexArc slang for the sparkling eyes of Servs and CorpTroops caused by the ipatch; also the phenomenon of being extremely mentally distracted by the continual stream of the Simulacrum.
GLR: “Great Lakes Rim”; the regional division of TexArc serving as the primary freshwater stronghold for the corporation; see also “corpent.”
GNR: “Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics”; the NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) of the 21st century; the new technologies that can both enable and destroy; see also “KMD,” “KME,” and “Know War.”
Groundsman (-men): CorpTroop(s) serving in ArcGround.
happers: TexArc term for customers or consumers.
hardnob: TexArc slang for the erect penis.
HEL: “High-Energy Lasers”; part of GLASS.
highmodern: term for the 20th-century era; that is, neoclassical capitalistic in nature.
hightower: TexArc word for skyscraper.
hire education: TexArc term for Terd vocational training; see also “TerdTech.”
holospoof: EVe term for holographic decoy images.
holyroller: TexArc slang for evangelical Christian; religious fanatic; pejorative or honorific depending upon point of view; see also “frenzychrister” and “TDer.”
hotseat: TexArc slang for the public execution chair; see also “pubex.”
HPA: “Human Performance Augmentation”; mechanized exoskeleton suits that greatly increase human physical capabilities; see also “NetExo.”
hub (the): TexArc slang for the Pyramid; the heart of power.
iband: TexArc term in common usage for the motor-sensory cortex band, that is, the bio-implant brain-machine interface and stimulation device implanted in all Servs; works in conjunction with the ihear and the ipatch.
ihear: TexArc aural bio-implant audio reception device implanted in all Servs; works in conjunction with the iband and the ipatch.
imagesense/imagesensing: TexArc term for bio-implant electrostimulation experience producing in a recipient the physical and emotional state of someone else; see also “emostim,” “fivesensestim,” and “taste.”
IMS: “IntraMountain Spine”; a mountainous TexArc regional division stretching between the megs of Edmonton to the north and MexCity to the south; see also “corpent.”
infoflow: “information flow”; TexArc term for strategic military intelligence.
insert (to): military term for infiltrating enemy territory, usually with a small, clandestine force.
insidertips: TexArc term for insider trading on the stock market; sanctioned cheating in stock deals carried out primarily by Crats; see also “savtrade.”
ipatch: TexArc term for an ocular bio-implant video reception device implanted in all Servs; works in conjunction with the iband and the ihear; features quadrant viewscreens; see also “all4s,” “downleft,” “downright,” “upleft,” and “upright.”
jingofrenzy: TexArc term for corporate patriotism; especially, that period of fervent pride display immediately following a corpatriotic bio-implant electrostimulation experience; see also “taste.”
justwar: “justifiable warfare”; TexArc term for a legitimate or morally right military conflict; more or less all TexArc aggressor actions.
KEW: “Kinetic-Energy Weapons”; part of GLASS.
kia: “killed in action”; TexArc term for a combat casualty.
killbot: “killer robot”; any automated killing machine; see also “mech.”
KMD: “Knowledge of Mass Destruction”; also known as “knowledge-enabled mass destruction”; the ill-advised and uncontrolled use of certain technologies that will lead to social and ecological disaster; see also “GNR,” “KME,” and “Know War.”
KME: “Knowledge of Mass Enablement”; the strategic and controlled release of certain technologies that would serve to free the world from mammonistic markets and TexArc control; see also “GNR,” “KMD,” and “Know War.”
knapsack: computer term for finding a legitimate ingress to a network and surreptitiously piggy-backing one’s way into it.
Know War: the conflict between KME and KMD; EVe versus TexArc; see also “GNR.”
LADAR: “Light Detection And Ranging”; a surveying technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser light; widely used for military target acquisition of various kinds.
leadmusic: TexArc term for musical segues used on Vieworld.
legislate (to): TexArc computer term for “to perform” or “to carry out.”
libby: “liberal”; TexArc slang for anyone of a political persuasion left of center of Corpfeud; highly pejorative.
libflee: “liberal flee”; the brain drain of intellectuals and socialists from TexArc to EVe during the 2030s and 2040s.
LNA: “Lower North America”; that geographic area of the continent between the tundra to the north and the isthmus to the south.
lowstatus: TexArc term for a Serv; the bottom rungs of the corporate classes; see also “upstatus.”
mammonism: EVe term for capitalism; see also “capitalgreed” and “smithprofitism.”
Maneuvers: the EVe military.
manushop: “manufacturing shop”; EVe term for a small, independently owned and operated factory or manufacturing facility; similar to cottage industry.
MarketSquare: an alternative information and entertainment feed streaming on WobblyNet; see also “mindfree” and “servchoice.”
Marksoc: “market socialism”; the current political-economic formation of EVe predicated on public ownership of the means of production; originating from the old Scandinavian social-economic model of the early 21st century; see also “alterity” and “paxrevolution.”
markstrat: “market strategy”; TexArc term for approaches to daytrading.
massprod: “mass production.”
McSlurrys: leading fast food restaurant chain in TexArc; popularly known as “The Arcs”; see also “feedtube.”
mech(s): TexArc term for any mechanized weapon; see also “killbot.”
meg: “megalopolis”; super-huge cities in TexArc that strive to function as self-sufficient economic units; see also “Corpfeud” and “Pyramid.”
megcouncilor: TexArc term for those few Crats who oversee the running of a meg; see also “TopCrat.”
message (to): EVe term to communicate via an electronic device.
messager: EVe term for a personal communication device.
mex: TexArc slang for all persons of Hispanic descent; pejorative.
mil-spend: “military spending”; a TexArc permanent policy.
mil-Terd: “military Terd”; hardcore military professionals in ArcNet and ArcSpace.
mindfree: Wobbly term for becoming unencumbered by the ideological control of the Simulacrum feed; see also “MarketSquare,” “servchoice,” and “WobblyNet.”
mindfuck: TexArc slang for a shocking thing, event, situation, or idea.
mister: a particularly nasty kind of TexArc firearm that shoots a spray of high-velocity pellets, in effect turning its target into mist.
mobgov: “mob government”; TexArc term for democracy; pejorative.
mobile: TexArc term for mobile home or trailer; the primary housing unit for Servs in the Parks.
motherforce: EVe military term for the main force of a Maneuvers fighter unit; see also “team.”
nano: short for “nanotechnology”; that is, the branch of technology that deals with dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers, especially the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules.
nanobot: “nanotechnology robot”; any robotic device using nanotechnology in its design and function; see also “assemblers” and “conplant.”
nanomorph: EVe term for a nanoparticle swarm simulator capable of taking on the shapes of various real items; see also “flitter nanobots” and “Die Gemeinschaft.”
nanosol: “nanotechnology solar” power; innovations in the production of solar cells that would provide the world freedom from dependence on fossil fuels; see also “GNR” and “KME.”
neotrumper: an early, hyper-aggressive TexArc political faction looking to make Lower North America great again, again; see also “trumptopia.”
NetExo(s): elite ArcNet combat force of Netsmen brainintegrated with exoskeleton HPA (Human Performance Augmentation) suits; see also “HPA.”
Netsman (-men): Terd(s) serving in ArcNet.
newsbig: TexArc term for important, breaking news.
OakCity: what BoiCity is renamed after the Wobbly takeover.
obamanation (the): TexArc term for the last significant period of liberal-leaning political influence in the old LNA Republic prior to its corporatization; pejorative in the extreme.
OLED suit: “Organic Light-Emitting Diodes” suit; a means of personal camouflage used by the TexArc military for covert operations; via sophisticated reflection-projection techniques, this suit renders its wearer virtually invisible.
oriental: TexArc slang for all persons of Asian descent; pejorative.
outbreak bug: TexArc term for pestilence-carrying insects (such as mosquitoes) or for a virus or pandemic germ itself; any widespread contagion or epidemic.
PA: “Patriot Act”; the central legal code of TexArc.
patriactor(s): “patriot actor(s)”; TexArc term for loyal corporate citizen.
pad (to): to key information into a computer palmbook, lapbook, or console.
Parker(s): TexArc slang for the urban poor living in the vast slums surrounding all TexArc megs; see also “Parks” and “Servs.”
parkport: “Parker portfolio”; used by Servs for daytrade activities, never with significant success.
ParkPol: “Parks Police”; special suppression forces that seek to prevent discord in the Parks of a meg; primary function is to keep such unrest from spreading toward the Gater District.
Parks (the): short for “trailer parks”; TexArc slang for the vast urban slums surrounding the central Gater District of megs; where Servs live and work; see also “Parker.”
paxrevolution: EVe term for the largely peaceful transition from mammonism to socialism where the knowledge workers and the body workers of a society unite to overthrow the minority money owner plutocrats; see also “alterity” and “Marksoc.”
PC: “Pacific Coast”; the most racially diverse and politically turbulent of the TexArc regional divisions, stretching between the megs of Vancouver to the north and Tijuana to the south; see also “corpent.”
pedanterd: “pedant Terd”; TexArc term for an academic.
picvoice: the picture and voice of a feed or network stream; see also “vidaud.”
pitch: term for a commercial or advertising in general; see also “counterpitch.”
poochscrew: TexArc slang for a grievous mistake or misstep; a very serious fuck-up.
popcult: “popular culture”; EVe term and field of sociological study.
postmod: “postmodern”; anything decentralized; without a chain of command or ultimate authority; relativity.
poz: “position”; ArcGround military term.
prod: TexArc term for a product or good for sale.
profit: TexArc term for salary or payment of any kind.
promo: “promotion”; TexArc Crat term for job advancement.
PSS: “Persistent-Surveillance Satellites”; part of GLASS.
PTA: “Plains-Tundra Argiworks”; the breadbasket regional division of TexArc, stretching north-south down the geographic center of the corporation; see also “corpent.”
pubex: “public execution”; a common form of TexArc entertainment over the Simulacrum; see also “hotseat.”
Pyramid (the): TexArc term for the pyramid-shaped hardened fortress located at the center of all megs; the seat of local corporate authority; see also “Corpfeud,” “Gater District,” and “hub.”
Pyramid Guard: ultra-elite security force for the protection of TopCrats of a meg.
quickeat: EVe slang for an eatery featuring fast service.
raghead(s): TexArc slang for any opponent of the corporation or anyone living outside corporate borders; all foreigners; highly pejorative.
rapegang: TexArc term for male pleasure-seekers; boys being boys.
revoevo: “revolution evolution”; TexArc term for the primary threat to Corpfeud; what the corporation seeks to prevent with regard to political-economic formation; see also “alterity,” “Marksoc,” and “paxrevolution.”
RHex: “Robot Hexapod”; a six-legged, high-mobility robot with powerful, independently controlled legs able to produce specialized gaits in order to traverse various terrains; widely used by the TexArc military for a variety of specialized functions, particularly covert operations.
safeline: EVe term for a secure communication device or stream.
SaltCity: a meg in TexArc, the former Salt Lake City; the lake evaporated.
savtrade: “savvy trade”; TexArc slang for insightful or shrewd trading practices on the stock market; see also “insidertips.”
selfoblige: TexArc term for self-gratification or self-interest; a corporate mantra.
selfterm: “self-termination”; TexArc military term for when ArcGround command intentionally kills a CorpTroop via autodestruct signals so that the CorpTrooper will not be captured by an enemy.
sellmusic: TexArc term for advertising jingles.
Serv(s): TexArc term for the lower corporate class; workers; the source pool for all CorpTroops; see also “Parker” and “shituber.”
servchoice: the key feature of WobblyNet; Servs control what, if any, information and entertainment they receive via their ipatch, ihear, and iband; see also “MarketSquare” and “mindfree.”
shituber: TexArc slang for a Serv; see also “bellyfart,” “feedtube,” “Parker,” and “tubed on”; highly pejorative.
shock-and-awe(d): TexArc term for crushing or overwhelming an adversary, usually militarily.
sigblock skullcap(s)/sigcaps: “signal block skullcap”/“signal caps”; EVe devices designed to stop the continuous video and audio stream of the Simulacrum over ArcNet to the ibands of Servs and CorpTroopers; small, roll-down hats made of metallictextile.
signification: principally an EVe term for the communication techniques used to convey information, ideology, or instructions; similar to semiotics, that is, the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation; largely a medium of visual/scripted storytelling similar to advertising; related terms are “signer” (a practitioner) and “to sign/signing” (the act itself); see also “advocacy project,” “Cultural Construct,” and “Signification Committee.”
Signification Committee: the EVe agency responsible for propagating the benefits of Marksoc over EVeWave via the use of signification; situated at Worcester College, Oxford; see also “advocacy project,” “Cultural Construct,” and “signification.”
simudisc: “simulation disk”; TexArc term for small computer disk with a digiland taste on it.
Simulacrum (the): TexArc information-entertainment stream sent out to all corporate citizens over ArcNet; see also “Cultural Construct” and “Vieworld.”
sleepspan: TexArc term for an assigned period of rest for Servs.
slice (to): computer term for gaining forced entry into a network; with firewalls so extensive as to afford no way around them, fissures or cracks must be found in order to wedge one’s way through them; see also “freak,” “slicer,” and “trail.”
slicer: an operator or program that gains illicit entry into a computer network; see also “freak,” “slice” and “trail.”
smithprofitism: EVe term for capitalism; see also “capitalgreed” and “mammonism.”
Sneak Team: EVe military term for covert forces; special-operations fighters.
snogall: EVe slang for a hypersexual person.
solarworks: power station; a facility generating electricity.
speedsleep: TexArc military term for a short, induced period of rest to enable continued activity.
stiffyanker: TexArc slang for the erect penis.
stim: “stimulation” of a virtual making; in particular, emotional responses during a feed or a taste; see also “digiland,” “emostim,” and “fivesensestim.”
strak hooya: TexArc military slang, used particularly by ArcNet and ArcSpace personnel, for an extremely avid or gung-ho serviceman.
stream (to)/streaming: to broadcast image and voice over a communications network; such a transmission itself; see also “feed.”
subceo: TexArc term for the corporate position just below that of the ceo; a top executive administrator to the big boss; see also “ceo,” “Crat,” and “corpexec.”
subterrene: EVe vehicle capable of traveling underground in a manner similar to a submarine traveling underwater.
sweetpuss: “sweet pussy”; TexArc slang for a woman; pejorative; see also “tits’n’ass.”
T-184 (e.g.): “TexArc 184”; nomenclature by which major corporate divided highways are designated.
tacnuke: “tactical nuke”; a low-yield field nuclear weapon.
talkheads: “talking heads”; Vieworld news reporters.
taste: TexArc term for experiencing the physical and emotional state of someone else via bio-implant electrostimulation; often used for important corporate messages to the population or for corpatriotic public excitation; see also “digiland,” “emostim,” “fivesensestim,” “jingofrenzy,” and “stim.”
TAV: “Trans-Atmospheric Vehicles”; a combined aircraft-spacecraft; part of GLASS.
TDer(s): a member of the Total Dominionist movement in TexArc; the most devout and orthodox of the manifold evangelical Christian groups within the corporation; see also “frenzychrister” and “holyroller.”
team: EVe military term for units or squads of fighters within a motherforce; see also “Sneak Team.”
tech: “technology”; often referring to technical personnel or to technical apparatus; see also “teek,” “Terd,” and “TerdTech.”
techpertise: “technical expertise”; TexArc term for extreme technical knowhow.
teek(s): “technology geek”; EVe slang for a technology/network worker and expert.
Terd(s): “technology nerd”; TexArc slang for a technology/network worker and expert; more generally, TexArc term for the educated, non-Crat corporate class; see also “Gater.”
TerdTech: TexArc term for a university; vocational training institutions for Terds; see also “hire education.”
TerdTowne: where the Terds live within the central fortified district of a TexArc meg; specifically, those areas nearest to the outer wall that separates the Gater District from the Parks.
term (to)/terming: “terminate”; TexArc common verb for “to end” or “to cease”; even more normally used for “to kill” or “killing.”
TexArc: formerly the oil conglomerate “TexArco”; the corporation that accomplished the hostile takeover of the outmoded U.S. republic in the 2030s; currently controls the North American continent from the Arctic Circle to the Panama Canal; predicated wholly on neoliberal economic principles; see also “Corpfeud.”
textsymbols: TexArc term for written letters, numbers, and words.
thinksay (to): TexArc term for any brainintegrated voiceless communication between two parties; normally via the iband and ihear.
thunderboomers: TexArc slang for extremely powerful and dangerous thunderstorms.
tits’n’ass: “tits and ass”; TexArc slang for a woman; pejorative; see also “sweetpuss.”
tonto: TexArc term meaning faithful sidekick and guide.
TopCrat(s): TexArc term for the uppermost governing Crats of a meg; see also “megcouncilor.”
toto: “total”; TexArc slang, often used as a prefix.
totoblank: “total blank”; all four viewscreens of the ipatch going blank; to stream no images; see also “all4s.”
trail (to): to track an intruder, either forward to destination or backward to origin, within a computer network in an effort to prevent unwanted entry into a system; see also “freak,” “slice,” and “slicer.”
trumptopia: TexArc term for idyllic economic-polity; see also “neotrumper.”
trumptopian: EVe term for a place dominated by topsy-turvy thinking and ethics; somewhere governed by narcissism and malicious ignorance.
tubed on: TexArc slang for a Serv being provided sustenance via a feeding tube; see also “bellyfart,” “feedtube,” and “shituber.”
24/7 or 24/7/365: TexArc slang for around-the-clock; constant.
upleft: the top left quadrant viewscreen (wearer’s perspective) of the ipatch; this screen carries the news stream Vieworld.
upright: the top right quadrant viewscreen (wearer’s perspective) of the ipatch; this screen carries the shopping stream Shopdrop.
upstatus: TexArc term for a Crat or a Terd; the top rungs of the corporate classes; see also “lowstatus.”
urbicide: “a killer of the urban”; TexArc term for the destruction of a city or a meg by overwhelming military force; see also “democratize” and “urbpass.”
urbpass: “urban pacification”; TexArc term for subduing a city or a meg militarily; see also “democratize” and “urbicide.”
vehic: “vehicle”; TexArc term for any manner of ground, air, or space conveyance.
vid: “video.”
vidaud: “video audio”; the video and audio portions of a feed or network stream; see also “picvoice.”
vidfeed: “video feed”; the visual portion of a network stream.
vidgame: “video game.”
Vieworld: TexArc news network streaming nonstop over the Simulacrum on the ipatch upleft; signature slogans include “Time To Know!”; “Wherever you go, there we are!”; “See the world, be the world!”; see also “Cultural Construct.”
viewscreen(s): “viewing screen(s)”; video reception equipment of any kind or size.
vir: “virtual”; computer-generated; often used as a prefix.
virbod: “virtual body”; TexArc term for one’s computer-generated body, often enhanced, during any virtual experience; see also “bodyenhance” and “digiland.”
virho: “virtual hole”; TexArc term for a computer-generated woman, usually for the purposes of computer-generated sex; see also “virsex.”
virsex: “virtual sex”; TexArc term for computer-generated sexual stimulation over the Simulacrum.
vit: “victuals”; TexArc slang for food.
Waco Great Pyramid (the): TexArc corporate headquarters; see also “CorpHQ” and “Pyramid.”
watchwrist: TexArc term for an information-communication device worn on the wrist.
Wave: EVe slang for EveWave; more generally their common term for the internet.
Wobbly(ies): Serv insurrection movement in the IMS; eventually, the name of the sovereign state declared by the Wobblies around the OakCity vicinity.
WobblyNet: an alternative and user-friendly internet stream constructed by EVe for the Servs and Terds in TexArc; see also “MarketSquare,” “mindfree,” and “servchoice.”
wonderboy: TexArc slang for someone who questions the corporate status quo; pejorative; see also “companyman” and “doubtom.”
workcreds: “work credits”; a unit of currency in TexArc enabling Servs to purchase goods and services for the promise of future labor to be performed; a form of indentured servitude; see also “cred(s),” “credsdebt,” “credshole,” and “credspending.”
yank (to)/yanking: slang for coitus or for getting fucked over.
yanker: slang for the penis or for someone who fucks you over.
yub (the): Serv and CorpTroop slang for gossip, wild rumor, or bullshit in general; for example, “the yub from the hub.”
zoomzoom (to): TexArc slang for a ground vehicle or driving a ground vehicle.