Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
qux
/kwuhks/ The fourth of the standard
metasyntactic variable,
after
baz and before the quu(u...)x series. See
foo,
bar,
baz,
quux. This appears to be a recent mutation
from
quux, and many versions (especially older versions) of
the standard series just run
foo,
bar,
baz,
quux, ...