Phonetic spelling of “[[{{m|en|FUBAR]]”}}, which is either an acronym for “Fucked"Fucked up beyond all recognition”recognition", or derived from {{m|en|foo}}.<ref name="jargon">“[http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html foo]”, ''[http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html The Jargon File]''</ref>

* {{IPA|en|/ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/|lang=en}}

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# {{labellb|en|slang}} A serious [[mistake]].

# {{labellb|en|computingprogramming}} {{n-g|A [[metasyntactic variable]] name, a place holder for words; compare [[foo]], [[bar]].}}

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