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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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