foobar

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Phonetic spelling of “FUBAR”, an acronym for “Fucked up beyond all recognition”.

[edit] Noun

Singular
foobar

Plural
uncountable

foobar (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A serious mistake.
  2. (computing) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.