Updated May 31, 2017 23:01:49

We may have just witnessed the birth of a word courtesy of an apparent typo in a tweet from Donald Trump.

This is how it all started:

There were thousands of theories about what the word means.

Some tweets riffed on the ongoing investigations into Russian influence on the 2016 US election:

Others wondered how his press secretary Sean Spicer would handle this:

And some were just plain hilarious:

The word already has entries on Urban Dictionary, obviously. FWIW, this is currently the top definition:

When you want to say "coverage" but your hands are too small to hit all the letters on your keyboard.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary had its own take on it:

It's important to note that this was just a typo in a tweet, so maybe we should all keep things in perspective.

As Mr Trump himself later pointed out:

And maybe, just maybe, it wasn't a mistake at all:

Topics: social-media, donald-trump, united-states

First posted May 31, 2017 16:32:28