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  2. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Biddy (from the name Bridget) is a female equivalent placeholder name for Irish females. Also note that the Hiberno-English placeholder names Yer man, Yer one and Himself/Herself are long-established idioms derived from the syntax of the Irish language.

  3. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  4. Foobar - Wikipedia

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    Foobar being used to show transclusion. The terms foobar (/ ˈ f uː b ɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2]

  5. CSS - Wikipedia

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    To demonstrate specificity Inheritance Inheritance is a key feature in CSS; it relies on the ancestor-descendant relationship to operate. Inheritance is the mechanism by which properties are applied not only to a specified element but also to its descendants. Inheritance relies on the document tree, which is the hierarchy of XHTML elements in a page based on nesting. Descendant elements may ...

  6. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [ 59 ] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"

  7. Grammar Guy: Placeholder names for every Tom, Dick and Harry

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  8. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    A placeholder name. See § Foo. Bare URL A reference including only the URL (web address) with no other text (publication name, article title, date, author, etc). See Wikipedia:Bare URLs. Such references are liable to link rot and should be avoided. Barnstar

  9. Placeholder - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name, a term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant. Filler text, text generated to fill space or provide unremarkable and/or standardised text. Lorem ipsum, a standard Latin text most commonly used to demonstrate a font, typography or layout.