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• flarp /flarp/ n. [Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
  Among those who u it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word `flarp' somewhere will not work....
• 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....
• garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
  once popular among SAIL hackers. -- 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....
• garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
  once popular among SAIL hackers....
• 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'....
• munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T --- see {HAKMEM} items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• fish: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. 1. Another {metasyntactic variable}.
  See {foo}. Derived originally from the Monty Python skit in the middle of "The Meaning of Life" entitled "Find the Fish"....
• grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...