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edited Feb 29, 2016 at 15:50

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To extend the computer science example you gave, someone may want to demonstrate a certain feature or technique applicable to methods. If it is a general point about method definition or invocation and the actual method is not important, then if foo and bar are given as class names, the method is often referred to as foo.doSomething() or bar.doSomeWork(). This seemsThese seem to fit your requirement as a verb placeholderplaceholders, although it'sthey are not a single wordwords.

The closest I can think of in everyday usage is using an obscure or nonsense word as a placeholder, so maybe you are remembering a word like discombobulate?

To extend the computer science example you gave, someone may want to demonstrate a certain feature or technique applicable to methods. If it is a general point about method definition or invocation and the actual method is not important, then if foo and bar are given as class names, the method is often referred to as foo.doSomething() or bar.doSomeWork(). This seems to fit your requirement as a verb placeholder, although it's not a single word.

The closest I can think of in everyday usage is using an obscure or nonsense word as a placeholder, so maybe you are remembering a word like discombobulate?

To extend the computer science example you gave, someone may want to demonstrate a certain feature or technique applicable to methods. If it is a general point about method definition or invocation and the actual method is not important, then if foo and bar are given as class names, the method is often referred to as foo.doSomething() or bar.doSomeWork(). These seem to fit your requirement as verb placeholders, although they are not single words.

The closest I can think of in everyday usage is using an obscure or nonsense word as a placeholder, so maybe you are remembering a word like discombobulate?

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created Feb 29, 2016 at 15:36

JonLarby

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To extend the computer science example you gave, someone may want to demonstrate a certain feature or technique applicable to methods. If it is a general point about method definition or invocation and the actual method is not important, then if foo and bar are given as class names, the method is often referred to as foo.doSomething() or bar.doSomeWork(). This seems to fit your requirement as a verb placeholder, although it's not a single word.

The closest I can think of in everyday usage is using an obscure or nonsense word as a placeholder, so maybe you are remembering a word like discombobulate?