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<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The popular mobile word game Words With Friends has added one of the internet&#8217;s most popular typos in recent days &#8212; &#8220;covfefe.&#8221;</p><p>The mysterious term that President Donald Trump tweeted has spread like wildfire on social media and the Scrabble-like multiplayer game has jumped aboard, defining the word as &#8220;the amount and quality of reporting when autocorrect fails you at 3am.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Covfefe&#8221; was born on Twitter just after midnight Wednesday when the president wrote about &#8220;constant negative press covfefe,&#8221; prompting jokes from Jimmy Kimmel to Hillary Clinton. Trump later poked fun at the typo: &#8220;Who can figure out the true meaning of &#8220;covfefe&#8221; ??? Enjoy!&#8221;</p><p>Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster checked in with an eye-rolling tweet, and dozens of definitions have been submitted to the Urban Dictionary website, which crowdsources slang terms.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">This screen grab shows a tweet from President Donald Trump which has social media trying to find a meaning in the mysterious term &#x201c;covfefe.&#x201d; Trump tweeted just after midnight Eastern time on Wednesday, May 31, 2017: &#x201c;Despite the constant negative press covfefe.&#x201d; The tweet immediately went viral and became one of the president&#x2019;s more popular posts before it was taken down after nearly six hours online. Trump poked fun at the typo, tweeting, &#x201c;Who can figure out the true meaning of &quot;covfefe&quot; ??? Enjoy!&#x201d; (Twitter via AP)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/web1_116883642-f8dce5e91620419e9730a2fbb3dd9a8a.jpg</photo0><caption0>This screen grab shows a tweet from President Donald Trump which has social media trying to find a meaning in the mysterious term &#x201c;covfefe.&#x201d; Trump tweeted just after midnight Eastern time on Wednesday, May 31, 2017: &#x201c;Despite the constant negative press covfefe.&#x201d; The tweet immediately went viral and became one of the president&#x2019;s more popular posts before it was taken down after nearly six hours online. Trump poked fun at the typo, tweeting, &#x201c;Who can figure out the true meaning of &quot;covfefe&quot; ??? Enjoy!&#x201d; (Twitter via AP)</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By MARK KENNEDY</p><p>AP Entertainment Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

Online game Words with Friends adds Trump’s ‘covfefe’ to its list