homework folder

US/ˈhoʊmwəɹk ˌfoʊldəɹ/

noun

A computer folder, album, gallery, etc. containing a personal digital collection of pornography or other erotica, often images.

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Meanings

nounhomework folder (plural homework folders)

plural homework folders · alternative "homework" folder

  1. InterneteuphemistichumorousA computer folder, album, gallery, etc. containing a personal digital collection of pornography or other erotica, often images.
  2. InternetbroadlyA hidden folder (directory).
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see homework, folder (a folder containing homework).

Origin

From homework + folder (“a virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other subfolders may be stored”), from the notion that a folder containing pornography would be hidden by disguising it under a generic false name. Unrelated to homework (“sexual intercourse”) (slang, euphemistic).

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APA

homework folder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homework%20folder

MLA

“homework folder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homework%20folder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homework folder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homework%20folder.

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