Percent-S

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  percent-S /per-sent' es'/ n. [From the code in C's `printf(3)' library
     function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] An unspecified
     person or object. "I was just talking to some percent-s in
     administration." Compare {random}.