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English
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Etymology
[edit]Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
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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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “foo”, The Jargon File