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fiasco

American  
[fee-as-koh, -ah-skoh] / fiˈæs koʊ, -ˈɑ skoʊ /

noun

plural

fiascos, fiascoes

  1. a complete and ignominious failure.

    Synonyms:
    bomb, flop, debacle, catastrophe, disaster

  2. a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, especially Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.

fiasco British  
/ fɪˈæskəʊ /

noun

  1. a complete failure, esp one that is ignominious or humiliating

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Etymology

Origin of fiasco

1850–55; < Italian: literally, bottle < Germanic ( flask 1 ); sense “failure” from Italian phrase far fiasco to fail, literally, to make a bottle, idiom of uncertain origin

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