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.
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(1994-11-28)
Nearby terms:
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