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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Any typical human being, more or less synomous with `someone' except that Fred Foobar can be backreferenced by name later on.

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

So Fred Foobar will enter his phone number into the database, and it'll be archived with the others.

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