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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.