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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>barney</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="barn.html" title="barn"/><link rel="next" href="baroque.html" title="baroque"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">barney</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barn.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baroque.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="barney"/><dt xmlns="" id="barney"><b>barney</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In Commonwealth hackish, <span class="firstterm">barney</span> is to <a href="../F/fred.html"><i class="glossterm">fred</i></a> (sense
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#1) as <a href="bar.html"><i class="glossterm">bar</i></a> is to <a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>. That
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is, people who commonly use <span class="firstterm">fred</span> as
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their first metasyntactic variable will often use <span class="firstterm">barney</span> second. The reference is, of course, to
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Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="barn.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="baroque.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">barn </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> baroque</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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