Another common metasyntactic variable see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang OR jargon sense. AccORding to a german cORrespondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german wORd "furchtbar" (hORrible, terrible, awful). [Jargon File] (2003-07-03)