What Does Greeking Mean?
In graphic design and visual IT, greeking is the process of using symbols or illegible text to represent text templates for the purposes of layout or previews. This process is called greeking because of the phrase “it’s Greek to me” used to refer to the Greek language.
Techopedia Explains Greeking
Greeking can be done in a number of ways. One particular type of greeking is done when preview rendering uses lines, bars or other text symbols to stand in for text that would otherwise be too small to read.