FILK

Meaning of FILK in English

Folk music played at sci-fi conventions. Example: Tom Smith is a good filk singer.

Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012

FILK — /filk/ [SF fandom, where a typo for "folk" was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk song with …
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FILK — [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] A popular or folk song with …
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FILK MUSIC — Филк
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FILCHNER ICE SHELF — /filk"neuhr, filkh"-/ an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SE Weddell Sea, bordered on the W by Berkner Island.
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NEWSFROUP — < messaging , humour > A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup , originally a typo but now in regular use …
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HING — ( IRC ) Fortuitous typo for "hint", now in wide intentional use among players of initgame . Compare newsfroup , …
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HACKER HUMOUR — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, …
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GRILF — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk , a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992. …
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DOUBLE BUCKY — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated …
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PR0N — [Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just …
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NEWSFROUP — [Usenet] Silly synonym for newsgroup , originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's talk.bizarre, and other lunatic-fringe …
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MUSIC — A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare science-fiction fandom , oriental food ; see also filk ). Hackish folklore has …
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HING — [IRC] Fortuitous typo for `hint', now in wide intentional use among players of initgame . Compare newsfroup , filk .
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GRILF — Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk , a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 …
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DOUBLE BUCKY — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated …
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COW ORKER — [Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This …
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ФИЛК — Filk music
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