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FILK
Etymology
Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
Adjective
filk (not comparable)
(music) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)
Noun
filk (countable and uncountable, plural filks)
Filk music.
Filk song.
In general
A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
Verb
filk (third-person singular simple present filks, present participle filking, simple past and past participle filked)
(intransitive) To perform filk music.
(intransitive) To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
(transitive) To write a parody of (a song).
Source: Wiktionary
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