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Foo is the first metasyntactic variable commonly used by hackers and programmers. It is sometimes combined with bar to make foobar. This suggests that foo may have originated with the World War II slang term FUBAR. The jargon file has an extensive etymology of the word foo at [1].

See also bar, baz, qux, quux, waldo, fred, xyzzy, thud

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	<b>Foo</b> is the first [[metasyntactic variable~~\|metasyntactic variables~~]] commonly used by [[hacker\|hackers]] and programmers. It is sometimes combined with ''[[bar]]'' to make ''[[foobar]]''. This suggests that ''foo'' may have originated with the [[World War II]] slang term ''[[FUBAR]]''. The [[jargon file]] has an extensive etymology of the word ''foo'' at [http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html].		<b>Foo</b> is the first [[metasyntactic variable]] commonly used by [[hacker\|hackers]] and programmers. It is sometimes combined with ''[[bar]]'' to make ''[[foobar]]''. This suggests that ''foo'' may have originated with the [[World War II]] slang term ''[[FUBAR]]''. The [[jargon file]] has an extensive etymology of the word ''foo'' at [http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html].

	See also [[bar]], [[baz]], [[qux]], [[quux]], [[waldo]], [[fred]], [[xyzzy]], [[thud]]		See also [[bar]], [[baz]], [[qux]], [[quux]], [[waldo]], [[fred]], [[xyzzy]], [[thud]]