foobar
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English [edit]
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