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Foobar vs Fubar - What's the difference?

foobar | fubar | Related terms |

Fubar is a related term of foobar.



As a noun foobar

is a serious mistake.

As an acronym FUBAR is

fucked up (or, bowdlerized, fouled up) beyond all recognition (or beyond all repair).

foobar

English

(wikipedia foobar)

Noun

(-)
  • (slang) A serious mistake.
  • (computing) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.

    • Related terms

    * foo * foo fighter * FUBAR

    References

    English placeholder terms

    fubar

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fubar

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • (US, slang) Fucked up]] (or, bowdlerized,'' [[foul up, fouled up) beyond all recognition (''or beyond all repair).
  • (US, slang) Fucked up but all right (flawed but working nonetheless ).

    • Related terms

    * bar * foo * foobar * foo fighter

    See also

    * cluster fuck * snafu * NFG

    References

    English military slang