An open book with blank golden pages lies beside a small closed dark book on blue ground.

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Cpl. Timothy Upham

I looked up fubar in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker has searched a German dictionary for fubar and found no entry. The failed search suggests a mistaken assumption about what language the expression belongs to. Reporting the result so plainly gives the line its comic literalism: reference-book diligence has followed the wrong lead.

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