foobar

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Contents

1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
  - 1.2.1 Related terms
  - 1.2.2 References

English [edit]

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Foobar

Etymology [edit]

Phonetic spelling of “FUBAR”, an acronym for “Fucked up beyond all recognition”, itself presumably from foo.^[1]

Noun [edit]

foobar (uncountable)

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

Related terms [edit]

References [edit]

^ “foo”, The Jargon File

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