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• 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...
• 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....
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• 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....
• dirtball n. [XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling outside
  ot in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• baz: /baz/ n. 1. The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we have three functio
  FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ....
• qux /kwuhks/ The fourth of the standard metasyntactic variable
  after baz foo, bar, baz, quux quux, and many versions (especially older versions) of the standard series just run foo, bar, baz, quux, ....
• bar /bar/ n. 1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before .
  ..." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar....
• bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}.
  Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....