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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | FUBAR n. The Failed UniBus Address Register in a VAX. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck past the suits; see foobar, and foo for a fuller etymology. Source: Jargon File. |
Multilingual Slang | Yiddish (vashnukad). (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Acronym for Fucked Up Beyond All Recogntion. Definition: This implies a feeling or description of a person who is extremely intoxicated. Also can have meaning towards how strange something may be. Context: Used in describing situations or people. Social Source: Oregon College Marijuana Users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FUBAR | English | Fouled / Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition / Repair | Computer - (slang, Usenet, IRC) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Screenplays | I looked up fubar in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here. (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fubar | 275 |
fubar movie | 39 |
fubar teen | 6 |
fubar soundtrack | 5 |
62 fubar | 4 |
fubar quote | 4 |
2003 fubar | 4 |
fubar pic | 3 |
fubar tab | 3 |
definition fubar | 3 |
does fubar mean | 2 |
2002 fubar | 2 |
fubar picture | 2 |
board fubar gun | 2 |
fubar movie quote | 2 |
fubar porn | 2 |
fubar movie picture | 2 |
drinking fubar game | 2 |
fubar video.com | 2 |
fubar snafu | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-r-u" | |
-1 letter: barf, bura. | |
-2 letters: arb, arf, bar, bra, bur, far, fub, fur, rub, urb. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, ba, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-r-u" | |
+2 letters: fabular, fibular. | |
+3 letters: faubourg, frabjous, furlable, subframe, surfable, surfboat, turbofan. | |
+4 letters: barrelful, bifurcate, butterfat, faubourgs, furbearer, harborful, refutable, refutably, subframes, surfboard, surfboats, turbofans. | |
+5 letters: barrelfuls, barrelsful, beautifier, benzofuran, bifurcated, bifurcates, breadfruit, breadstuff, butterfats, floribunda, furbearers, harborfuls, refundable, subsurface, sufferable, sufferably, surfboards, turboshaft. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 55 42 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- -... .- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010101 01000010 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F U B A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0055 0042 0041 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4055363552 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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