transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]
[very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable ; see foo for etymology. Probably originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) in 1960s and early 1970s; confirmed sightings there go back to 1972. Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense. See also Fred Foobar . In RFC1639, "FOOBAR" was made an abbreviation for "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records", but this was an obvious backronym .