foobar
English edit
Etymology edit
Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foobar (plural foobars)
- (slang) A serious mistake.
- (programming) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
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References edit
- ^ “foo”, The Jargon File