English Explanatory Dictionary

foobar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A serious mistake.
  2. A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.

Pronunciation

/ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/ En-au-foobar.ogg

Word forms

foobar foobars

Etymology

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

Related words

foo foo fighter FUBAR
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