Hey, Choomba.

“Choomba”, also “Choom” or “Choombatta”, means buddy or friend in the Cyberpunk universe. Within the setting, it is described as Neo-Afro-American slang.

The term is known from Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game and the video game Cyberpunk 2077 based on that world. Our name stands for what brings a city to life: its people and their stories.

There is a linguistic parallel in historical Australian slang: “choom” is documented as a pronunciation variant of “chum”. This does not establish that Pondsmith derived his term from it.