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• foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
  ee foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970...
• garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
  once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• FUBAR: n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
  A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suit}...
• flarp: /flarp/ [Rutgers University] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word `flarp' somewhere will not work....
• 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....
• 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/ 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'....
• barney: n. In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to {fred} (sense #1) as {bar} is to {foo}.
  That is, people who commonly use `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney' second....