xeroxlore

English

Etymology

xerox +‎ lore.

Noun

xeroxlore (uncountable)

1. Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).
   • 1980, Gershon Legman, The New Limerick:

     […] the word's protean expressiveness has been observed in a xeroxlore item printed in Robert Anton Wilson's Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words […]

   • 1995, Indiana University, Journal of folklore research, volume 32:

     I did some of my research on xeroxlore, or photocopylore, in a textile dyeing plant of about 250 people.

   • 1996, Gail de Vos, “Science, Technology, and the Contemporary Legend”, in Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7–12, Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, part III, page 120:

     Both Xeroxlore and faxlore have an increasing emphasis of visual material: / [It may be] a characteristic of both the increasingly visual sophistication of youth in our society and the capacities of the fax machine which sends images rather than alphanumeric messages; […]

Synonyms

• copylore
• photocopylore

Coordinate terms

• faxlore