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Usually refered to as someone who has made a complete and utter failed attempt to find humor in something completly irrelivant or in no way humorus to begin with inside the internet in a despriate attempt to be popular.
An E-fail can be multiple things and include but are not limited to:

Trying to make up something utterly stupid to post on the internet to impress a bunch of people who don't really don't care to begin with.

A more direct example would be kids with no lives trying to duplicate the 'numa numa dance' to become an e-celebrity.
E-fail by oldmanwithagrudge October 6, 2009
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1) Failing an online course, most commonly used for extremely easy online courses.
2) When an e-mail is not sent for whatever error (user, hardware, software).
3) A failed pickup attempt online with a chatroom companion; rejection
1) "Damn, I cannot believe that my online basket weaving course turned out to be an e-fail. Now I'll never graduate."
2) A: Did you get my e-mail? It was very important.
B: No.
A: Crap. The TPS reports are going to be late because of a stupid e-fail.
3)A: you wanna cyber
B: No.
A: Well that was a total e-fail.
e-fail by Induhvidyooul January 19, 2007
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e-pic fail 

The combination of an epic fail and a picture which fails epically.
Kevin: Oh, yeah. We moved in last week. We had a new pool put in because the old one was only 50 metres. I'll send you a pic on my phone.
David: Is that your wife? Why does that say 'for Matt'?
Kevin: Uh...

An e-pic fail.
e-pic fail by AcousticSmash October 30, 2010

e-failure 

Someone who fails hard, and often on the internets. Often a failure in real life, also.
Spark is very much an e-failure as he often tries to create pitiful jokes and gets pwned by noobs on XBL and on IRC.
e-failure by Adieu12345 April 19, 2008

e-mail failure 

when you type someone’s name wrong in an email but the government knows who you were trying to contact and contacts them through esp anyways.
The e-mail failure had someone thinking about the sender during the day.
e-mail failure by Coop Dupe December 12, 2019
A failed email. One that gets lost in cyberspace
My best friend sent me an "efail", which I never recieved.
Efail. by Max T. November 27, 2003

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
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