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• 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....
• 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....
• frog: alt. `phrog' 1. interj. Term of disgust (we seem to have a lot of them).
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....
• frog alt. `phrog' 1. interj. Term of disgust (we seem to have a lot of them).
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo....
• baz: /baz/ n. 1. The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we have three functio
  FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ....
• baz /baz/ n. 1. [common] The third metasyntactic variable "Suppose we have three functio
  F FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ...." (See also fum) 2....
• glork /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo....
• glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....
• bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}.
  Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....