foo
A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entityA metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
» You need to filter the output of this command in order to display only the lines with "foo" inside.
Wir müssen das Ergebnis dieses Befehls filtern, damit wir nur die Zeilen sehen, die „foo‟ enthalten.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
Examples
2 sentencesYou need to filter the output of this command in order to display only the lines with "foo" inside.
deWir müssen das Ergebnis dieses Befehls filtern, damit wir nur die Zeilen sehen, die „foo‟ enthalten.
Because our class is in the same package as Foo, we can access Foo's protected methods.
Origin
From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “JupitFrom Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.
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Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable