Definition of fubar in US English:
fubar
(also foobar)
adjective ˈfo͞obärˈfo͞obär
Out of working order; seriously, perhaps irreparably, damaged.
the clock in the hall is fubar
Example sentencesExamples
- My scanner is fubar for a limited time, and I am away from my computer for the holiday period anyhow.
- However you took the offending article down before I had chance to snort with derision at its fubar logic and textual opacity.
- Things have to go really fubar before he lets a bus run in outside of the time limit.
- The army commanders, cut off from each other, independently came to basically the same conclusion - the situation was completely fubar.
- The administration's recent exposure of the mole inside al Qaeda - an incredible fubar accomplishment - highlights what happens when everything is run by the political arm.
- The only thing that is fubar here is your post.
- Well, this is completely fubar.
- ‘The situation we're stuck in is completely fubar,’ he told her.
- This situation is completely fubar.
- No, dude, my email has been fubar for the last week and a half.
- I will not let this mission go fubar because there are too many chiefs giving orders to my Indians.
Origin
1940s: acronym from fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair).