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  2. Lists of nicknames - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [1] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule. A moniker also means a nickname or personal name.

  3. 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 .

  4. 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 ...

  5. Category:Placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Joe's Diner (placeholder name) K. Jan Kowalski (placeholder name) L. Rudolf ...

  6. 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.

  7. Talk:List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew section, the is a paragraph about the use of ראובן [clarification needed] and שמעון [clarification needed] as placeholder names primarily in the Talmud and responsa, (sort of as an equivalent to Alice and Bob in cryptography, where a sequence of actions or relationship between two people is dicussed,) but I couldn't ...

  8. Joe's Diner (placeholder name) - Wikipedia

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    Joe's Diner is a placeholder name for a fictional or hypothetical everyman's restaurant.Although there are franchises that use the name, its rhetorical use is often to describe a small, local business contrasted against large businesses or franchises.

  9. Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia

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    A metasyntactic variable is a specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming.These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted before real-world usage.