porn

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pórnē Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos) Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos)lbor. French pornographiebor. English pornographyclip. English porn Clipping of pornography. First attested in the mid-20th century.

1. Pornography.

   “I just delete the porn before someone else uses the computer.”

   “Underground boards also carried handy programs for "scanning" telephone codes and raiding credit card companies, as well as the usual obnoxious galaxy of pirated software, cracked passwords, blue-box schematics, intrusion manuals, anarchy files, porn files, and so forth.”

2. A pornographic work.

   “There are anywhere from ten to twelve chapters in the average porn, so that many blank pages can be inserted.”

   “— I’ve got it at home. Anyway, there was this gap between the final two porns.”

3. Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.

   “car porn”

   “gun porn”

4. Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.