foobar

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

foobar (plural foobars)

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

Related terms

• foo
• foo fighter
• FUBAR

Translations

variable name

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