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foos

foos is the plural of foo.

Meaning of foo

Noun

foo (uncountable)

  1. A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
    • Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Foos

Foos (plural Fooses)

  1. A surname from German.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Foos

the Foos

  1. (informal) The Foo Fighters, an American rock band.

Forms of foos

pluralFooses

Origin of foos

Americanized spelling of German Fuss.

Questions about foos

What does foos mean?
Foos means a surname from German.
What is foos the plural of?
Foos is the plural of foo.
What part of speech is foos?
Foos is a proper noun.

Words near foos in the dictionary

  1. Foord
  2. foordite
  3. Foors
  4. foorth
  5. foorthwith
  6. foos
  7. foosa
  8. foosball
  9. foosballer
  10. foosballers
  11. foose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foos (page history and authors); Foos (page history and authors); foo (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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