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• ewsfroup // n. [Usenet] 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, pr0n and fi...
• hing: // [IRC] n. Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of {initgame}.
  Compare {newsfroup}, {filk}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hing // n. [IRC] Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of initgame.
  Compare newsfroup, filk....
• grilf: // n. Girl-friend. Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo incarnated as a new word.
  Seems to have originated sometime in 1992. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• filk: /filk/ [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] n.
  v. A popular or folk song with lyrics revised or completely new lyrics, intended for humorous effect when read, and/or to be sung late at night at SF conventions....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....