FUBAR
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Stands for: Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
Slang for something broken beyond any reasonable repair.
"Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition" is the WWII sibling of SNAFU, and one of the threads RFC 3092 follows to explain where "foobar" in code came from. In practice it labels the state past which you stop patching and start over.
Also known as: fubar
Sources
- US military slang, WWII