grilf: // n. Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo
reincarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in
1992 on Usenet. [A friend tells me there was a Lloyd Biggle SF
novel "Watchers Of The Dark", in which alien species after species
goes insane and begins to chant "Grilf! Grilf!". A human detective
eventually determines that the word means "Liar!" I hope this has
nothing to do with the popularity of the Usenet term. --ESR]
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