"bareword" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: barewords [plural]
Etymology: bare + word Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bare|word}} bare + word Head templates: {{en-noun}} bareword (plural barewords)
  1. (programming, chiefly Perl) A sequence of text characters in source code that do not form a keyword nor part of a quoted string, and may potentially be interpreted in various ways. Categories (topical): Programming

Inflected forms

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