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Definition

a complete failure — typically humiliating

Much more rarely, fiasco may reference a traditional Italian wine bottle (covered with straw).

Their battle plan was a fiasco. They were in retreat after five minutes.

I have fallen from a height, and my fiasco has made no noise.
Henry James -- The American
The production was a fiasco.
Much was learned from the Hurricane Katrina fiasco.
I think the football team would be very curious to find out just who was responsible for yesterday's fiasco.
Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)

fiasco = complete failure

Like everything else in my life, here comes another fiasco.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

fiasco = a complete failure

After the fiasco at Rubicam's Business College, the idea of getting a gentleman caller for Laura began to play a more and more important part in Mother's calculations.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie

fiasco = something that was a complete failure

When she was asked why the previous year's exposé of Wennerström had been such a fiasco, she was even more delphic.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Are you familiar with the term fiasco?
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
A bit wiser after the dwarf-ghost fiasco, I listened to the children recite story after story of ghosts who walked the island by night.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
The Battle of Brooklyn—the Battle of Long Island as it would be later known—had been a fiasco.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
Er... well, it was...' said Harry, pulling a dish of rhubarb crumble towards him and helping himself to seconds, 'a complete fiasco, now you mention it.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Beyond this there was nothing in the manner of their leaving to suggest a fiasco, or that they were not going together to visit friends.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
His voice was louder now "They assigned us to take part in the worst civil rights fiasco since the War of 2020.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
The Pentecost next after Lancelot's first quest was almost a fiasco.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Six hours after this fiasco, Alma returned to finish drawing my blood.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
At least this fiasco wouldn't last a week.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
It was possible that the whole thing might end up a fiasco, complete with jabbing elbows and bumping heads and disappointment in the end.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
I assumed my talent-show fiasco meant I never had to play the piano again.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
This year, so close on the heels of the birthday/baptism fiasco, and with Hunter still too young to care, Halloween was a non-event.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

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