Related:

• 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....
• 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}....
• 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...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• initgame /in-it'gaym/ n. [IRC] An IRC version of the trivia game "Botticelli
  in which one user changes his nick to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next....
• 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...