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foobar.

A serious mistake.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/
  1. A serious mistake.

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

Where this word comes from

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

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