foobar

English

Etymology

Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

foobar (plural foobars)

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

Related terms

Translations

variable name

Esperanto: ajn (eo)
Japanese: hogehoge (hogehoge)

References

“foo”, The Jargon File

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