virch
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
virch (countable and uncountable, plural virches)
- (informal, science fiction) virtual reality
- 1995, Michael Bishop, "Cri de Coeur" in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, p. 428:
- (He won't use virch goggles; their simulated environments cut him off too thoroughly from me, and that scares him.)
- 2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, p. 108:
- "Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?"
- 2015, James Bradley, Clade, unnumbered page:
- Knowing Noah will be content in his virch for as long as he is left undisturbed, she begins mapping new ideas […]
- 1995, Michael Bishop, "Cri de Coeur" in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, p. 428:
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