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| The word '''foobar''' might originate in the ] American Army slang word '']'', which is an abbreviation of "<u>F</u>ucked <u>u</u>p <u>b</u>eyond <u>a</u>ll <u>r</u>ecognition" (describing a very bad situation, e.g., a plan that went wrong) or "... beyond all repair" (for machinery that was destroyed). Fubar was most probably influenced by the ] word <i>furchtbar</i> which means terrible or awful. | |||
| Later, fubar might have changed to foobar, perhaps by merging it with the word ''foo'', which is a general term of disgust and might originate in the ] word "fu" (or "foo" 福), meaning happiness. (This is all folk etymology: nobody knows if fubar and foobar are actually related. The ], for example, gives no origin for foobar.) | |||
| Today, foobar is also used as a dummy test word in many descriptions and tutorials of ]s, where it serves as an example text, e.g., for the division of a string into ''foo'' and ''bar'' (see ]). | |||
| Foobar is also used in another form, '']'', which supposedly resembles a ]ese word. Except in military and computer sciences/] communities, the word ''fubar'' had fallen out of use since the ] but has enjoyed another resurgence since it was used in the movie ] (1998). | |||
| See: ] | |||
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