THUD


Meaning of THUD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.