(I never thought of teaching as being a dangerous occupation, before.)

Back to subject...
The film...Pulp Fiction is a good example of 'pulp' it evens starts off by giving the dictionary meaning of the word....then proceeds with a mixed up series of events that all tie together in the end.

As to amalgamations......I'm thinking

text messaging or texting....now, txing, txt or plain tx.
as in phone text messaging and now common on the internet