foobar
English
Etymology
Phonetic spelling of “FUBAR”, an acronym for “Fucked up beyond all recognition”, itself presumably from foo.[1]
Noun
foobar (uncountable)
- (slang) A serious mistake.
- (computing) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
Related terms
References
- ^ “foo”, The Jargon File