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• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
• FUBAR: n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
  A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suit}...
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• J. Random Hacker /J rand'm hak'r/ n. [very common] A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldie
  he archetypal hacker nerd. This term is one of the oldest in the jargon, apparently going back to MIT in the 1960s....
• bar /bar/ n. 1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before .
  ..." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar....
• FUBAR n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
  A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the sui...
• waldo: /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1.
  A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb....
• bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo} and before {baz}.
  Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....