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* Japanese programmers commonly use ''hoge'' (ほげ)[5] and ''piyo'' (ぴよ), with other common words and variants being ''fuga'' (ふが), ''hogera'' (ほげら), and ''hogehoge'' (ほげほげ).
* In France, the word ''toto'' is widely used by programmers, with variants ''tata, titi'', and ''tutu'' as related placeholders.
* The [[w:Whatchamacallit (candy)|''Whatchamacallit'' bar]], a chocolate/peanut butter/caramel candy bar introduced by Hershey in 1978, uses a Metasyntactic Variable as its name to emphasize what at the time of its release was
** Hershey also briefly (2009-2012) produced a chocolate-peanut butter bar called the ''Thingamajig''.
* "X-ray" was originally a placeholder name for an [[Unknown Phenomenon|unexplained phenomenon]], with "X" representing, as in algebra, the unknown.
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