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thud

(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".

thud

(2)
Rare term for the hash character, "#" (ASCII 35). See ASCII for other synonyms.
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"There was a very sickening noise, thudding and squashing, the kind of noise I don't want to hear again.
It's hard to describe, but there's a thudding sadness (internalized rage?) that builds up as the distortions of Kinsey's detractors, especially Judith Reisman, are repeatedly unexamined in the national press.
And how Gilliland knows the body: Whether repeatedly hurling themselves to the floor in death-spiral fashion, their thudding, thwacking noises creating a distinctive soundtrack, or offering lyricism in one-arm balances and feral backbends to Robert Een's elegiac cello score, the dancers were vessels for Gilliland's choreographic magic.
Caffeine, sleep deprivation and stress also cause dull, thudding brain pain.
It fell about 800ft after making "an odd, thudding noise" and landed upside down.
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