foobar

Noun

Meaning

(slang) A serious mistake.

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

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Examples

Clearly, bar was the original, for the concatenation FOOBAR is widely used also, and this in turn can be traced to the obscene acronym ' FUBAR ' that arose in the armed forces during World War II. Source: Internet

Foobar was also used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure (1977 Crowther and Woods version). Source: Internet

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