Usually means: Complete and embarrassing failure or disaster.
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  1. fiasco: Merriam-Webster
  2. fiasco: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fiasco: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fiasco: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fiasco: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fiasco, fiasco: Wordnik
  7. fiasco: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fiasco: Wiktionary
  9. fiasco: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fiasco: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fiasco: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fiasco, fiasco: Dictionary.com
  13. fiasco: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fiasco: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fiasco (L4 clone), Fiasco (band), Fiasco (book), Fiasco (bottle), Fiasco (magazine), Fiasco (novel), Fiasco (role-playing game), Fiasco: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fiasco: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fiasco: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fiasco: Rhymezone
  19. fiasco, fiasco, fiasco (fig.), fiasco (het), fiasco (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fiasco: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fiasco: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Fiasco: The Word Detective
  23. fiasco: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Fiasco: World Wide Words
  25. Fiasco: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. fiasco: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fiasco (disambiguation), fiasco: Legal dictionary

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  1. fiasco: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FIASCO: Acronym Finder
  2. fiasco: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiasco: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fiasco: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fiaschi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden or unexpected failure.
noun:  A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
noun:  A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

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