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fred
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n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a metasyntactic variable
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(see foo ). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to
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type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. In Great Britain, fred , jim and sheila
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are common metasyntactic variables because their uppercase versions were
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official names given to the 3 memory areas that held I/O status registers on
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the lovingly-remembered BBC Microcomputer! (It is reported that SHEILA was
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poked the most often.) Unlike J. Random Hacker or J. Random Loser , the name
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fred has no positive or negative loading (but see Dr. Fred Mbogo ). See also
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barney. 2. An acronym for Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device ; other
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F-verbs may be substituted for flipping.
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