Both Uses of
fiasco
in
1776, by McCullough
- The Battle of Brooklyn—the Battle of Long Island as it would be later known—had been a fiasco.†
p. 193.2 *
- The Connecticut "runaways" were held to blame for the whole fiasco, which only made worse the hard feelings between the troops of New England and those of the other states that had plagued the army almost from the beginning.†
p. 215.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(fiasco) a complete failure or humiliating situation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, fiasco may reference a traditional Italian wine bottle (covered with straw).