protip
English
Etymology
pro (“professional”) + tip. Originally ProTip, name for small pieces of gameplay advice used as screenshot captions in GamePro magazine. The advice in a hoax version of a ProTip for id Software's Doom ("To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies") was so comically obvious that it later became an Internet catchphrase.
Noun
protip (plural protips)
- (Internet slang, often sarcastic) A tip given by a professional.