porn

noun

1. (informal, uncountable, usually)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.”

   “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. (countable, in-plural, informal, usually)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.”

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

3. (informal, uncountable, usually)Material, 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. (humorous, informal, often, uncountable, usually)Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.