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• fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar).
  Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC....
• 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....
• bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}.
  Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....
• 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} and before the quu(u.
  ..)x series. See {foo}, {bar}, {baz}, {quux}. This appears to be a recent mutation from {quux}, and many versions (especially older versions) of the standard series just run {foo}, {bar}, {baz}, {quux}, ....
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• 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....
• 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, ....