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Foo was a nonsense word used by cartoonist Bill Holman in the comic strip "Smokey Stover" from the 30's into the 50's. He was reported to have discovered the word in a Chinese fortune cookie and the word appeared in almost every panel in the strip. It predates most of definitions that I have seen so far. The strip appeared in the SF Chronicle or the SF Examiner.

Foo was on signs along the road, on license plates or anywhere else one could imagine

A thing encountered by a specific fighter. The Foo Fighter, that, if not fought, would bring an end to the world as we know it

“I’m so glad the Foo Fighters took out that Foo down the street”

One of the default variables in programmer's slang. See bar.

And I incremented foo, but then forgot to check the array boundary and all hell broke loose

Kung fu means skill from effort. Kung foo means skill from bad-ass programming powers. $foo is used extensivly in php as a generic variable.

"This is my kung foo, and it is strong." $foo += 10;

German word for hot chick.

Er ist ein Luegner, er will mir nur nicht glauben, dass Foo Foo kein deutsches Wort ist und meint, wenn es hier steht, dann ist das der Beweis Translation: She is such a damn Foo Foo.

1. A word meaning "fool", in the case of Mr. T 2. A commonly used programming variable, used when someone doesn't want to spend the time thinking up a real name for it. 3. A metasyntactic variable commonly used by coders. Foo is often used in conjunction with the words bar baz and qux

1. "I pity the foo!" 2. foo = 3; 3. "Damn! Dont we have any good food? All thats left is this foo!" "The code is full of foo"

As in La La Foo Foo, the term is used to reduce a statement which seems to be made unscientifically.

How Can you believe all that fortune teller stuff, is all a bunch of foo foo?