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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.