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kebab case en · NOUN

Etymology

In allusion to the appearance of a shish kebab, with various food items assembled on a skewer. Additionally, the coincidence that kebabs and camels are both archetypally Near Eastern was probably not lost on the computer programmers who coined the names kebab case and camel case.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.

Forms

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kebab-case alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

snake case · uppercase · camel case · lowercase · CamelCase

Hypernyms

stylization · style · styling · letter case · casing · case

Relateds

hyphenated · charstring · hyphenation

Synonyms

dash case