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• kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
  These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II....
• 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....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant of {kluge}, q.
  v. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard...
• mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• munge /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....
• 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....