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foobars

foobars is the plural of foobar.

Meaning of foobar

Noun

foobar (plural foobars)

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

Questions about foobars

What is foobars the plural of?
Foobars is the plural of foobar.

Words near foobars in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foobars (page history and authors); foobar (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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