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corflu

corflu noun: opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.

Noun

corflu (uncountable)

  1. (dated, slang) Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
    • Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.1960, John Bristol Speer, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190
    • She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.1983, Cathy Ball, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159

Origin of corflu

Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.

Questions about corflu

What does corflu mean?
Corflu means opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
What part of speech is corflu?
Corflu is a noun.

Words near corflu in the dictionary

  1. Corfield
  2. Corfiot
  3. Corfiote
  4. Corfiotes
  5. Corfiots
  6. corflu
  7. corflute
  8. corflutes
  9. corfs
  10. Corfu
  11. Corfute

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