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English
Etymology
Abbreviation of letter of comment.
Noun
LoC (plural LoCs)
- (dated, fandom slang) Correspondence, usually a letter, sent to a periodical commenting on either the contents of a previous issue or an earlier letter of comment.
1961 May 6, Fanac, page 1:The first contributor of an accepted new item (not a COA) is entitled to a free issue, as are all other Good People who send in locs, cartoons, etc.
1964 January, Les Spinge, page 2:Available for Trade, LoC, Contribution, goodwill (rarely) or even money.
- (programming) Initialism of lines of code.
- Synonym: LOC
- Synonym: SLOC
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LoC (third-person singular simple present LoCs, present participle LoCcing, simple past and past participle LoCced)
- (dated, fandom slang) To write a letter of comment to a periodical.
1997 December 22, Rich Brown (Dr Gafia), “Re: The Good Ol' 'Write-In' Ballot”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:But what happens, since you have spent a couple of weeks with this firm intention to LoC them all in mind, and in many instances you've even check-marked the particular things you want to comment on and thought about just what you want to say, as future issues of fanzines come into your mailbox, you break your fingernails on the staples in your haste to get to them opened so you can turn to the lettercolumn to see if they printed your LoC.
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