foobar

NOUN

metasyntactic variable; whatever

Synonyms

WEAK

X bar baz corge foo fred garply grault plugh quux qux thud waldo whatchamacallit wombat xyzzy

Example Sentences

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In RFC1639, "FOOBAR" was made an abbreviation for "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records", but this was an obvious backronym.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.