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• corge: /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {grault}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
  See corge....
• grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
  ee foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970...
• garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
  once popular among SAIL hackers....
• fish: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. 1. Another {metasyntactic variable}.
  See {foo}. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit in the middle of "The Meaning of Life" entitled "Find the Fish"....
• 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'....