Related:

• flarp: /flarp/ [Rutgers University] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word `flarp' somewhere will not work....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
  once popular among SAIL hackers....
• garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
  once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
• hud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
• hud n. 1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
  It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
• grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
  See corge....