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xeroxlore

noun

Etymology

From xerox + lore.

  1. inherited from *laizō✻
  2. inherited from *laiʀu✻
  3. inherited from lār
  4. inherited from lore
  5. compounded as xeroxlore — “xerox + lore”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban…

    Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).

    • […]the word's protean expressiveness has been observed in a xeroxlore item printed in Robert Anton Wilson's Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words[…]
    • I did some of my research on xeroxlore, or photocopylore, in a textile dyeing plant of about 250 people.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for xeroxlore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA