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grilf: //, n. Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and
filk, a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to
have originated sometime in 1990 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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