May 15, 2003

flarp

/flarp/ n.

[Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). Among those who use it, it is associated with a legend that any program not containing the word flarp somewhere will not work. The legend is discreetly silent on the reliability of programs which do contain the magic word.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:47 AM

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