corflu

Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.

Noun

  1. 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...

Origin

Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.