foobar

noun
/ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A serious mistake.

  2. A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foobar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA