fi
n.— «After his plane’s wing clipped another’s, Doc Searls kept his sanity during the hours of interminable delay by digging into his kit bag for widgets that give him wireless connectivity. And best of all, he got some “free ‘Fi’” from a neighbour of a friend.» —“Free Fi Free Fi Roam” by Bernard Goldbach IrishEyes (Kilkenny, Ireland) July 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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