Fiasco meaning
A complete failure.
noun
The definition of a fiasco is something that is an utter and complete disaster.
An example of fiasco is a party where no one shows up and the clown hired to entertain breaks his leg and sues.
noun
A bottle; esp., a long-necked wine bottle with a rounded lower portion covered in woven straw.
noun
A complete failure; esp., an ambitious project that ends as a ridiculous failure.
noun
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Origin of fiasco
- French from Italian fare fiasco to make a bottle, fail from fiasco bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille bottle, error, used by the French for linguistic errors committed by Italian actors on the 18th-century French stage) from Late Latin flascō flask
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō "bottle, container", from Frankish flaska "bottle, flask" from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. "Failure" sense comes through French (faire fiasco) from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally, "to make a bottle"), of unknown origin.
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