barney
: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.
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