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Foo is the first metasyntactic variables commonly used by hackers. It is sometimes combined with bar to make foobar. This suggest 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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