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foobar

/ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/

foobar noun: a serious mistake.

Noun

foobar (plural foobars)

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

foobar meaning in Bengali

foobar in Bengali

একটি মারাত্মক ভুল

Forms of foobar

pluralfoobars

Origin of foobar

Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.

Questions about foobar

What does foobar mean?
Foobar means a serious mistake.
What is foobar in Bengali?
Foobar in Bengali is একটি মারাত্মক ভুল. See Foobar meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is foobar?
Foobar is a noun.
How do you pronounce foobar?
Foobar is pronounced /ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of foobar?
The plural of foobar is foobars.

Words near foobar in the dictionary

  1. foo-foo
  2. foo-foo band
  3. foo-foo bands
  4. foo-foo juice
  5. foob
  6. foobar
  7. foobars
  8. foobs
  9. Fooching
  10. Foochow
  11. Foochowese

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foobar (page history and authors); foobar (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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