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• ewsfroup: // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for {newsgroup}, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.
  bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare {hing}, {grilf}, and {filk}....
• hing // n. [IRC] Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of initgame.
  Compare newsfroup, filk....
• pr0n // [Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about anything.
  The term comes from the warez kiddies tendency to replac on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into mainstream hacker usage....
• hing: // [IRC] n. Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of {initgame}.
  Compare {newsfroup}, {filk}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• cow orker n. [Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal.
  This term was popularized by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but seems to have originated earlier in a 1997 scary devil monastery FAQ....
• filk /filk/ n.,v. [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk song with lyrics revised or completely new lyrics and/or music
  intended for humorous effect when read, and/or to be sung late at night at SF conventions....
• grilf // n. Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo reincarnated as a new word.
  Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 on Usenet....
• murf /smerf/ n. [from the soc.motss newsgroup on Usenet, after some obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] A newsgroup regular with a habitual style that is irreverent, silly, and cute.
  Like many other hackish terms for people, this one may be praise or insult depending on who uses it....
• murf: /smerf/ [from the soc.motss newsgroup on USENET, after some obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] n.
  A newsgroup regular with a habitual style that is irreverent, silly, and cute....