Crossword clues for fubar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1944, acronym from fucked up beyond all recognition. Said to be military slang originally.
Wiktionary
acr. (alternate form of lang=en FUBAR) n. (alternate form of lang=en foobar)
Wikipedia
FUBAR is a 2002 mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, based on the lives of two lifelong friends and head-bangers living out their lives, constantly drinking beer. FUBAR debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the 'Park City at Midnight' category, which previously launched such films as The Blair Witch Project. Since its release, it has gained critical acclaim and a cult status in North America, but especially within Western Canada. It was both filmed and set in Alberta, particularly in and around Calgary.
It was filmed entirely with digital cinematography, on a shoestring budget that required many involved with the project to max out their credit cards in order to complete the movie (according to an interview on their official website). Many of the people featured in the movie (including the fist-fighters) were bystanders who thought that the filmmakers were shooting a documentary on the common man.
FUBAR features characters partly based on a comedy routine performed by David Lawrence and Paul Spence that they developed based on the head-banger subculture. David Lawrence, Paul Spence, and S.C. Lim also appear in Michael Dowse's movie, It's All Gone Pete Tong. (Dr. S.C. Lim plays himself in FUBAR as Dean's doctor. Lim actually is Michael Dowse's doctor.) The characters of Terry and Dean were later seen again, featured in the Michael Dowse-directed music video "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism" by The New Pornographers.
FUBAR is a military acronym for "fucked up beyond all/any recognition/ repair/ reason/ redemption."
FUBAR or fubar may also refer to:
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FUBAR (film), a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film
- FUBAR: The Album, the film's soundtrack album
- FUBAR 2, the 2010 sequel to the film
- Fubar Films, an Irish film and television production company based in Dublin
- F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare, a 2006 book by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill
- Fubarite, humorous term for any rock whose origin cannot be determined.
Usage examples of "fubar".
The fubar suit couldn't keep me alive - not as sixty kilograms of eating, breathing, excreting woman anyhow.
Gul Fubar has engaged the Grand Nagus in hectobar to hectobar combat over the plans for a stereographic sensor array, and I must enter the fray on behalf of Kahless the Unforgettable before he's forgotten.
Gul Fubar dropped heavily back into his chair, leaning his head back and howling like a lunatic.
The only reason the Grand Nagus agreed was because he had already discovered that Gul Fubar had received authority to double his credit line.
If Gul Fubar did anything to Wesley, Beverly would not have the opportunity to slay Riker: He would beam over to the Cardassian ship, phaser in hand, and get to Gul Fubar before the Cardassian soldiers could cut him down.
This time, however, Gul Fubar was ready with a large enough line of credit.
The population of Fort Fubar was simply gone, all their tools and belongings and cooking utensils left where they had last been used, as if the people had only stepped away for a second and intended to return in the next second.
He had patrolled up and down the sandy, heat-baked perimeter of Fort Fubar several times, squinting out into the wasteland in all directions.
The companions saw duplicates of the helmets worn by the Incarnates in Fort Fubar, but new ones, as well—a hippopotamus, a crocodile, a donkey, even an insect.
Much less sophisticated in important matters than Nkrumah Fubar, she didn't care to tell anybody, or even to remind herself, what had really knocked her over.
Nkrumah Fubar was experimentally placing a voodoo doll of the president of American Express inside a tetrahedron—their computer was still annoying him about a bill he'd paid over two months ago, on the very daynight that Soapy Mocenigo dreamed of Anthrax Leprosy Pi.
Nkrumah Fubar could program a headache for the President of the United States.
Nkrumah Fubar was experimentally placing a voodoo doll of the president of American Express inside a tetrahedron— their computer was still annoying him about a bill he'd paid over two months ago, on the very daynight that Soapy Mocenigo dreamed of Anthrax Leprosy Pi.
I have a problem that needs to stay on the QT, but is rapidly going FUBAR.