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thud: 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’.

2. Rare term for the hash character, ‘#’ (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synonyms.


 
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