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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thud</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="throwaway-account.html" title="throwaway account"/><link rel="next" href="thumb.html" title="thumb"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thud</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="throwaway-account.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thumb.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thud"/><dt xmlns="" id="thud"><b>thud</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Yet another <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a> (see
<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s
the canonical series of these was &#8216;foo&#8217;, &#8216;bar&#8217;,
&#8216;thud&#8217;, &#8216;blat&#8217;.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Rare term for the hash character, &#8216;#&#8217; (ASCII
0100011). See <a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a> for other synonyms.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="throwaway-account.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="thumb.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">throwaway account </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> thumb</td></tr></table></div></body></html>