Foobar


jargon
Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.
According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word “furchtbar” (horrible, terrible, awful).
[Jargon File]
(2003-07-03)

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