Placeholder name
"Nicknack" redirects here. For the James Bond character, see The Man with the Golden Gun (film). "Cadigan" redirects here. For people with the surname, see Cadigan (surname). Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which they are being discussed. Contents 1 Linguistic role 2 Examples 2.1 Companies and organizations 2.2 Computing 2.2.1 Domain names 2.3 Geographical locations 2.4 Legal 2.5 Medicine 2.6 Military 2.7 Numbers 2.8 People 2.9 Spoken and written language 3 See also 4 References Linguistic role These placeholders typically function grammatically as nouns and can be used for people (e.g. John Doe, Jane Doe ), objects (e.g. widget ), locations ("Main Street"), or places (e.g. Anytown, USA ). They share a property with pronouns, because their referents must be supplied b...