Dictionary

pr0n en · NOUN

Etymology

A respelling of porn with middle letters transposed and o replaced with zero.

Meanings

1. (Internet, Leet, uncountable) A filter-avoidance spelling of porn.
   • They were just pr0n, really. And I figured you might need to blow off some steam. No pun intended. 2017, Emma Newman, After Atlas, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
   • Merlin Mann, creator of 43 Folders, joked about the lure of “productivity pr0n” (pornography in internet slang) as early as 2005: “It is a tongue-in-cheek term often used lovingly by its avid—even obsessive—consumers. It often implies the awareness that not all productivity pr0n leads to actual productivity[…] 2019, Joseph M. Reagle Jr, quoting Merlin Mann, Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 52:

Forms

Deriveds

and prawn · based on the phonetics of pr0n and used to avoid internet content filters · Derived forms include n0rp · pr0n spelled backwards