"xyzzy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the seminal text adventure game Adventure (c.1975), where it served as a \"magic word\"; possibly originated as a mnemonic for the subscripts of the cross product in mathematics.",
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      },
      "expansion": "xyzzy (uncountable)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce:",
          "text": "Especially bad are \"magic words\" from computer games, such as xyzzy. These magic words look secret and unguessable, but in fact they are widely known.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Gaynor, Network Services Investment Guide:",
          "text": "Suppose stock xyzzy is selling at $100.00 on January 1, 2002. The classic call option is to pay a fixed amount per share (say $10) for the option to buy...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ruslan Mitkov, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics:",
          "text": "The path that relates xyzzy to XYZZY cycles many times through the single state of the transducer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt, Practices of an Agile Developer:",
          "text": "How you even form the sentence makes a difference; if you say, \"We need technology xyzzy because...,\" then the battle for common sense is already lost.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian Foy, Learning Perl:",
          "text": "Perl doesn't care if you call your loop labels things like XYZZY or PLUGH.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as a placeholder word or metasyntactic variable."
      ],
      "id": "en-xyzzy-en-noun-GH5yrCZX",
      "links": [
        [
          "placeholder",
          "placeholder#English"
        ],
        [
          "metasyntactic variable",
          "metasyntactic variable#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Xyzzy (computing)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "zĭz'i"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzɪzi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪzi"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-uk-xyzzy.ogg"
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  ],
  "word": "xyzzy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the seminal text adventure game Adventure (c.1975), where it served as a \"magic word\"; possibly originated as a mnemonic for the subscripts of the cross product in mathematics.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "xyzzy (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪzi",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪzi/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Web Security, Privacy and Commerce:",
          "text": "Especially bad are \"magic words\" from computer games, such as xyzzy. These magic words look secret and unguessable, but in fact they are widely known.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Gaynor, Network Services Investment Guide:",
          "text": "Suppose stock xyzzy is selling at $100.00 on January 1, 2002. The classic call option is to pay a fixed amount per share (say $10) for the option to buy...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ruslan Mitkov, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics:",
          "text": "The path that relates xyzzy to XYZZY cycles many times through the single state of the transducer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt, Practices of an Agile Developer:",
          "text": "How you even form the sentence makes a difference; if you say, \"We need technology xyzzy because...,\" then the battle for common sense is already lost.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian Foy, Learning Perl:",
          "text": "Perl doesn't care if you call your loop labels things like XYZZY or PLUGH.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as a placeholder word or metasyntactic variable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "placeholder",
          "placeholder#English"
        ],
        [
          "metasyntactic variable",
          "metasyntactic variable#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Xyzzy (computing)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "zĭz'i"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzɪzi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪzi"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "xyzzy"
}