fred : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fred	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for fred
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fred \Fred\ (fr[ecr]d), n. [AS. fri[edh] peace. See {Frith} inclosure.] Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fred, TX Zip code(s): 77616
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
fred n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. In Great Britain, `fred', `jim' and `sheila' are common metasyntactic variables because their uppercase versions were _official_ names given to the 3 memory areas that held I/O status registers on the lovingly-remembered BBC Microcomputer! (It is reported that SHEILA was poked the most often.) Unlike {J. Random Hacker} or `J. Random Loser', the name `fred' has no positive or negative loading (but see {Dr. Fred Mbogo}). See also {barney}. 2. An acronym for `Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device'; other F-verbs may be substituted for `flipping'.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FRED Robert Carr. Language used by Framework, Ashton-Tate. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fred 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}). Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Unlike {J. Random Hacker} or "J. Random Loser", this name has no positive or negative loading (but see {Mbogo, Dr. Fred}). See also {barney}. 2. An acronym for "Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device"; other F-verbs may be substituted for "flipping".