What does FIASCO mean?

Definitions for FIASCO
fiˈæs koʊ or, esp. for 2 , -ˈɑ skoʊfi·as·co

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. debacle, fiasconoun

    a sudden and violent collapse

Wiktionary

  1. fiasconoun

    A ludicrous or humiliating failure. Some effort that went quite wrong.

  2. fiasconoun

    A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

  3. Etymology: From fiasco, from flasca, flascō "bottle, container", from flaska "bottle, flask" from flaskōn; see flask. "Failure" sense comes through (faire fiasco) from theatrical slang far fiasco (literally, "to make a bottle"), of unknown origin.

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  1. fiasco

    A fiasco is a complete and utter failure, often in a public or humiliating way, typically resulting from poor planning or execution. It involves a situation that is completely out of control and unsuccessful.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fiasconoun

    a complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking

  2. Etymology: [It.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fiasco

    fi-as′ko, n. a failure in a musical performance: a failure of any kind. [It. fiasco, bottle, perh. from L. vasculum, a little vessel, vas, a vessel.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FIASCO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fiasco is ranked #111426 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fiasco surname appeared 158 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fiasco.

    96.8% or 153 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIASCO in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FIASCO in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of FIASCO in a Sentence

  1. Steve Johnston:

    He understands that he made a mistake with the whole meat fiasco.

  2. New York:

    Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a 'disastrous' and 'humiliating' 'fiasco,' in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists, yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created.

  3. Premier Mark McGowan:

    This ship needs to leave immediately, our position is clear, we are not going to have a Sydney Harbour fiasco on our watch.

  4. Daniel Ives:

    The Twitter fiasco had a major overhang on Tesla's stock and that is Musk's golden child.

  5. Charles Krauthammer:

    When democrats complain about not taking stands you go back to Ruth Bader Ginsberg who made it a principle of her nominating process that she would not in any way telegraph where she would stand on anything, ever since the Bork nomination and the fiasco of the attacks on him it’s understood your job up there is to dance, to express a fealty to the constitution. You will say you will be independent and that's it and he did that beautifully.

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