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• garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
  once popular among SAIL hackers....
• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
• 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....
• 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'....
• grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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"....
• corge: /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
  See {grault}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
• gorp: /gorp/ [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo} and {bar}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...