Terpri

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  terpri /ter'pree/ vi. [from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] To output a
     {newline}. Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common
     LISP. It is a contraction of `TERminate PRInt line', named for the fact
     that, on some early OSes and hardware, no characters would be printed
     until a complete line was formed, so this operation terminated the line
     and emitted the output.


  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  terpri
       
          /ter'pree/ TERminate PRInt line.  [{LISP 1.5} and later,
          {MacLISP}] To output a {newline}.  Still used in {Common
          LISP}.  On some early {operating system}s and hardware, no
          characters would be printed until a complete line was formed,
          so this operation terminated the line and emitted the output.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1996-06-24)