English Dictionary: barney | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for barney | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Barney, GA Zip code(s): 31625 Barney, ND (city, FIPS 4940) Location: 46.26651 N, 96.99919 W Population (1990): 79 (27 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58008 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
barney In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to {fred} 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. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-28) |