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porn

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pɔːn//
  • United States//pɔɹn//

Pornography.

noun

  1. 1

    informalPornography.

    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.

    There're all kinds of ways to interact with our friends over the network: we can play hallucinogenic games, chat, send pictures, code, music, funny articles, metric fuckloads of porn… The interaction is high-quality!

  2. 2

    informalA 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.

    I remember once watching a porn with some friends of mine […]

  3. 3

    informalMaterial, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.

    car porn

    gun porn

    food porn

    Because software is particularly good at counting, it can be used to create wonderfully compelling visualizations of quantitative data. These can be so compelling that they have even been called “info porn” (see the periodic table of visualizations).

  4. 4

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

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.

Forms

plural
porns
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).