Editing Robert A. Heinlein (section)

===Words and phrases coined===
Even outside the science fiction community, several words and phrases coined or adopted by Heinlein have passed into common English usage:
* [[wikt:waldo|Waldo]], protagonist in the eponymous short story "[[Waldo (short story)|Waldo]]", whose name came to mean mechanical or robot arms in the real world that are akin to the ones used by the character in the story.
* [[Moonbat]]<ref>''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', "On Language", by [[William Safire]], September 3, 2006</ref> used in [[United States politics]] as a pejorative political [[epithet]] referring to progressives or [[Left-wing politics|leftists]], was originally the name of a space ship in his story "[[Space Jockey]]".
* [[Grok]], a Martian word for understanding a thing so fully as to become one with it, from ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', whose root meaning in Martian is "to drink".
* [[Space marine]], an existing term popularized by Heinlein in short stories, the concept then being made famous by ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', though the term "space marine" is not used in that novel.
* [[Speculative fiction]], a term Heinlein used for the separation of serious, consistent science fiction writing, from the pop "sci fi" of the day.