thud

n : a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

[syn: {thump}, {thumping}, {clump}, {clunk}]

v 1: make a dull sound [syn: {thump}]

2: strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the

wall"

3: make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants

[syn: {crump}, {crunch}, {scrunch}]

thud

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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