Hodl is the divine word coined by a fellow member from this forum and is now being written in dictionaries. This could be called a drunken serendipity but has become a valuable contribution of this forum to english (and every) language.
Here's the original post of origin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0Glad I didn't have to scroll far to find the truth. It's a shame that there are very few whose time on Bitcointalk go back to the days where culture and history in the crypto space were formed. Overran by newbies with purchased forum accounts nowadays.