thud: 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.
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