Look up: fiasco

1. fiasco
   [Noun] A total failure of something planned.
   Example: The holiday was a complete fiasco from start to finish.
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2. Fiasco
   The straw-covered flask historically associated with Chianti.
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3. fiasco
   a straw-covered wine bottle having a round bottom and a long neck and holding about 2 litres.Used in Tuscany(Italy) Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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4. Fiasco
   Fi·as'co noun ; plural Fiascoes . [ Italian ] A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
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5. Fiasco
   • (n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
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6. fiasco
   fiasco 1. A total failure, especially a humiliating or ludicrous one. 2. A complete and ignominious failure. 3. A sudden and violent collapse. 4. Etymology: from about 1855, theater slang for 'a failure'. By about 1862, it acquired the general sense of any 'dismal flop', on or off the stage. Here...
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7. Fiasco
   (book) `Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq` (2006) is a book by Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks. Fiasco deals with the history of the Iraq War from the planning phase to combat operations to 2006 and argues that the war was badly planne...
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8. Fiasco
   (band) `Fiasco` is a Brooklyn-based trio formed in October 2005 by Jonathan Edelstein (guitar/vocals), Julian Bennett Holmes (drums), and Lucian Buscemi (electric bass/vocals), although all three are multi-instrumentalists.<ref name="Fiasco in Spin Magazine">http://spin.com/artic...
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