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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.