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)