Alternative forms

• kebab-case

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.

Noun

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1. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#KEBABCASE) The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.

   Synonym: dash case

   Hypernyms: letter case, caseCategory:English links with manual fragments#KEBAB%20CASE, casingCategory:English links with manual fragments#KEBAB%20CASE; stylingCategory:English links with manual fragments#KEBAB%20CASE, styleCategory:English links with manual fragments#KEBAB%20CASE; stylizationCategory:English links with manual fragments#KEBAB%20CASE

   Coordinate terms: snake case (with underscores); camel case, CamelCase; uppercase; lowercase