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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. In Great Britain, fred , jim and sheila are common metasyntactic variables because their uppercase versions were official names given to the 3 memory areas that held I/O status registers on the lovingly-remembered BBC Microcomputer! (It is reported that SHEILA was poked the most often.) Unlike J. Random Hacker or J. Random Loser , the name fred has no positive or negative loading (but see Dr. Fred Mbogo ). See also barney. 2. An acronym for Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device ; other F-verbs may be substituted for flipping.
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