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thud


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.