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flarp
/flarp/ , n. [Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo ). Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word flarp somewhere will not work. The legend is discreetly silent on the reliability of programs which do contain the magic word.