Where does “foobar” come from?
foobar (English) comes from English FUBAR — Fucked up beyond all recognition.
foobar (English): A serious mistake; A metasyntactic variable name,...
Definitions
- A serious mistake; A metasyntactic variable name,...
Ancestry of “foobar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | FUBAR | Fucked up beyond all recognition |