fiasco

fi·as·co

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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.

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fiasco

noun

pl. -·coes or -·cos

a complete failure; esp., an ambitious project that ends as a ridiculous failure

Origin of fiasco

French from Italian (far) fiasco, to fail (lit., to make a bottle: reference, refer uncertain ) from fiasco, bottle: see fiasco)

noun

pl. -·coes or -·chi

a bottle; esp., a long-necked wine bottle with a rounded lower portion covered in woven straw

Origin of fiasco

Italian from Germanic an unverified form flasko, flask

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fiasco

noun

pl. fi·as·coes, or fi·as·cos

A complete failure.

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 ; see flask .

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Noun

(plural fiascos or fiascoes)

A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

Origin

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.