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Wiktionary

  1. n. Used as a placeholder word or metasyntactic variable.

Etymologies

  1. 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. (Wiktionary)

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  • alexz I know this word from the infocom game Zork. c. 1980.
    Jan 8, 2013

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‘xyzzy’ has been looked up 1151 times, loved by 1 person, added to 9 lists, commented on 1 time, and is not a valid Scrabble word.