corflu
nounEtymology Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.
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Lifestyle 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: