bogon

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5

Definition of bogon

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang)The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
    “Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.”
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noun

  1. (slang)The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
    “Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.”
  2. (slang)An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.

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Etymology

From bogus (“fake, phony”) + -on (“suffix used to form names of elementary particles or fundamental units”).

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