Definition

f**ked up beyond all recognition

Also: Completely and utterly broken beyond any hope of repair; a situation so catastrophically messed up that even the best tech support can't save it. Military origin, now universal slang for 'irredeemable disaster.'

Example Usage

The entire project was fubar after they deleted the database, so we just started over from scratch.

Origin

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