foobar
Sign in to saveAlso known as foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, fubar
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The terms foobar, foo, bar, baz, quux, and others are used as metasyntactic variables in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.
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