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virch en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vɝt͡ʃ/ (General-American)
• /vɜːtʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Shortening.

Meanings

1. (countable, informal, uncountable) 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:
   • 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:
   • "Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?" 2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, page 108:

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