virch
nounUS /vɝt͡ʃ/ · UK /vɜːtʃ/
Etymology Shortening.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction Informal virtual reality
- (He won't use virch goggles; their simulated environments cut him off too thoroughly from me, and that scares him.)1995, Michael Bishop, “Cri de Coeur”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, page 428:
- "Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?"2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, page 108:
1 more example
- Knowing Noah will be content in his virch for as long as he is left undisturbed, she begins mapping new ideas […]2015, James Bradley, Clade, unnumbered page: