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Definition of Fiasco
1. Noun. A sudden and violent collapse.
Definition of Fiasco
1. n. A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Definition of Fiasco
1. Noun. A ludicrous or humiliating failure. Some effort that went quite wrong. ¹
2. Noun. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fiasco
1. a wine bottle [n -COES or -CHI] / a complete failure [n -COES or -COS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiasco
Literary usage of Fiasco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1870)
"A FRENCH paper gives the following account of the origin of the expression " to
make a complete fiasco." A German one day seeing a glassblower at his ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"THE CHINESE fiasco. 1. The Englishman in China. By Alex. Michie. Edinburgh and
London : Blackwood, 1900. 2. China; her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce. ..."
3. The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia by Kellogg Durland (1908)
"HE Kronstadt fiasco revealed the value to the government of the agent
provocateur.1 During the entire year 1906 there was no shrewder nor cleverer piece of ..."
4. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"XXII The fiasco at Petersburg — Welles's Lack of Confidence in Grant — Attorney-General
Bates's Opinion of the Cabinet and of General Halleck — Assault of ..."
5. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor (1890)
"AX — THE SILK-WORM EXCITEMENT — EFFECT OK LEGISLATION ox SERICULTURE—fiasco IN
TOBACCO—MUSTARD—SUGAR. NOTWITHSTANDING the many other growing industries of ..."
6. The New Map of Europe (1911-1914): The Story of the Recent European by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1914)
"... CHAPTER XVIII THE ALBANIAN fiasco rI ^HE world has not known just what to do
with I the mountainous country which comes out in a bend on the upper ..."
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