thud
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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. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |

