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• gorp /gorp/ n. [CMU
• 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'....
• 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....
• 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'....
• qux: /kwuhks/ The fourth of the standard {metasyntactic variable}, after {baz} and before the quu(u.
  ..)x series. See {foo}, {bar}, {baz}, {quux}. This appears to be a recent mutation from {quux}, and many versions (especially older versions) of the standard series just run {foo}, {bar}, {baz}, {quux}, ....
• bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}.
  Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....
• garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
  once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fum: [XEROX PARC] n. At PARC, often the third of the standard {metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}).
  Competes with {baz}, which is more common outside PARC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....