Thud

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thud

Usage: n.

See Also: foo

thud: n.

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'.
Rare term for the hash character, `#' (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synonyms.

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Sources

Source: thud, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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