FUBAR / F.U.B.A.R. -> Fucked up beyond all repair / Fouled up beyond all recognition

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This term has become so widespread that it's now used as a verb "Things have been FUBARed. Let's get out of here!"
Related term : SNAFU

Definition results:
FUBAR is an acronym that commonly means "Fucked Up Beyond All Repair", "Fucked Up Beyond Any Recognition," (the recognition version was most often ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR
Fucked up (or, euphemistically, fouled up) beyond all recognition (or beyond all repair); Fucked up but all right (flawed but working nonetheless)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FUBAR

Etymology (citing from Wikipedia):
Electronics engineers say that SNAFU and FUBAR were used before World War II by repairmen sent out to repair phone booths. They had to report the situation at arrival to the scene, often on a very bad line, so they developed these acronyms to make themselves understood.[1] Others say the word was developed in the 1960s, as fire departments across the US began to use the line, though as noted below it is found in military media as far back as 1944. Also as stated below, Stanley makes a FUBAR tool and most departments use some form of the tool. It is commonly used for forcible entry and overhauling of burned structures.

The Oxford English Dictionary currently lists Yank magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR Squadron... FUBAR? It means 'Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition'."

FUBAR also appears, in an apparent example of geek humor, as the acronym for the Failed UniBus Address Register in the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX-11/780 Unibus adapter (DW780).

FUBAR may have been influenced by the German word furchtbar, meaning "terrible". It is pronounced with a soft cht, and probably made the transition during World War II.

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Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
fucked up beyond all reason
Fucked Up Beyond Any Recognition
Failed UniBus Address Register
Fed Up Beyond All Recognition
Fed Up Beyond All Repair
Fowled Up Beyond All Recognition
Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair
Fucked-up Beyond All Recognition
fucking up beyond all recognition
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