corflu en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.
Meanings
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(dated, slang, uncountable) Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
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: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: