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corflu ‎(uncountable)

(dated, fandom slang) Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
- 1960, Speer, John Bristol, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190:
  Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.
- 1983, Ball, Cathy, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos, published 2011, ISBN 9781612420325, page 159:
  She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.

Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, pages 27–28