Fiasco Definition
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
Other Word Forms of Fiasco
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Origin of Fiasco
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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.
From Wiktionary
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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
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