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barney |
3 definitions found From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Barney, GA Zip code(s): 31625 Barney, ND (city, FIPS 4940) Location: 46.26651 N, 96.99919 W Population (1990): 79 (27 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58008 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: barney n. In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to {fred} (sense #1) as {bar} is to {foo}. That is people who commonly use `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney' second The reference is of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: barney In Commonwealth hackish, barney" is to {fred} as {bar} is to {foo}. That is people who commonly use fred" as their first {metasyntactic variable} will often use barney" second The reference is of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-28)
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