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noun

• acronym for "fear of missing out".

  Person A: That party'll probably be lame. Why are you going?
  
  Person B: FOMO.

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  • See more words with the same meaning: afraid, scared.

  Last edited on Dec 17 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 17 2012.

adjective

• bad, garbage, weak.
  
  For the most part its a term from the south tip of Florida. It is usually used by American Football players to imply that someone else is garbage at the game itself.
  
  This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. It will be saved from deletion if legitimate citations are found.

  Last edited on May 12 2017. Submitted by Anonymous on May 12 2017.

noun

• colloquial pronunciation of fool.

  What's up, foo?

  Who's that foo over there?

  You're such a foo.

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  • See more words with the same meaning: friend, friends.

  Last edited on Jul 06 2010. Submitted by David L. from VA, USA on Sep 23 1997.

• a geek term used to represent anything. Used essentially as a synonym for "whatever." More information can be found in RFC3092.

  Look it up on the news sites - cnn.com, msnbc.com, or foo.

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  • See more words with the same meaning: unspecified item(s), 'stuff', 'thing(s)'.

  Last edited on Jul 06 2010. Submitted by David H. from San Marcos, TX, USA on Dec 20 2001.

• in computing, an example or placeholder variable. Used in the same way as "bar" and "baz".

  So let's say foo is 1, bar is 2, and baz is 3. That means foo + bar + baz = 6.

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  Last edited on Dec 16 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 16 2011.

• acronym for "family or origin" - that is, the first family that a human is a member of.

  She no longer has any connection to her FOO as they rejected her same-sex partner.

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  • See more words with the same meaning: family, family members.

  Last edited on Jan 10 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 10 2016.