Clappers
Terrorists who engage in what is essentially suicide bombing against harvest camps that perform the unwinding procedure. Their name comes from the way that their bombers’ blood is replaced with an explosive compound that explodes…
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Juvey-Cops
The special police officers tasked with hunting down runaway Unwinds.
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Kicking-AWOL
The term for running from one’s unwinding. Unwinds who run are sometimes called AWOL Unwinds.
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Storking
The practice in which mothers can legally abandon their infants on people’s porches. If the mother gets away without getting caught, the residents of the “storked” house have to keep and raise the baby. If…
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Tithe
A child raised with the express intent of being unwound when they reach 13. Tithing is most often practiced in religious communities, as the term has biblical origins and, in that sense, refers simply to…
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Umber
The novel’s proper way to refer to black people.
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Unwind
Unwinding is the process by which a teenager’s body is divided up so that 99.44 percent of their body can be used in organ, limb, blood, or brain transplants for other people. Teens slated to…
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