Thud
noun
1.
a dull sound, as of a heavy blow or fall.
2.
a blow causing such a sound.
verb (used without object), thudded, thudding.
3.
to strike or fall with a dull sound of heavy impact.
noun
1.
a dull heavy sound: the book fell to the ground with a thud
2.
a blow or fall that causes such a sound
verb thuds, thudding, thudded
3.
to make or cause to make such a sound
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 35). See ASCII for other synonyms.
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