May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:58 AM

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