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• FUBAR: n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX.
  A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the {suit}...
• foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
  ee foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970...
• foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}
  ee {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• bar /bar/ n. 1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before .
  ..." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• accumulator n. obs. 1. Archaic term for a register.
  On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old....
• cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt. [from LISP] To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary tree structure
  which returns a list consisting of all but the first element of its argument)....