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• corge /korj/ n. [originally, the name of a cat] Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation.
  See grault....
• grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
  See corge....
• garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
  once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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'....
• 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....
• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
• 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...