fiasco
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fi·as·co
(fē-ăs'kō, -ä'skō) 
n., pl., -coes, or -cos.
A complete failure.
n., pl., -coes, or -cos.
A complete failure.
[French, from Italian fare fiasco, to make a bottle, fail, from fiasco, bottle (perhaps translation of French bouteille, bottle, error, used by the French for linguistic errors committed by Italian actors on the 18th-century French stage), from Late Latin flascō. See flask.]
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fiasco
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Definition: catastrophe
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder
Barron's Wine Lover's Companion:
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fiasco; pl. Fiaschi
[fee-YAHS-koh; fee-YAHS-kee] Italian for "flask," the word fiasco is most often connected with the squat, round-bottomed, straw-covered bottle containing cheaper wine from the chianti region. The straw covering not only helps the bottle sit upright, but protects the thin, fragile glass. Fiaschi are seldom seen today because the cost of hand-wrapping each flask for cheaper wines has become prohibitive, and the more expensive wines with aging potential need bottles that can be laid on their sides.
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fiasco
IN BRIEF: A complete or humiliating failure.
The whole project was a fiasco because it collapsed.
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In English the word fiasco means an absolute, abject or utterly humiliating failure. It may also refer to:
In literature:
- Fiasco (novel), science-fiction novel by Stanisław Lem (1987)
- Fiasco (book), full title Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, by Thomas E. Ricks (2006)
- The Labrador Fiasco, novel by Margaret Atwood (1996)
- The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, novel by John Birmingham (1997)
- Fiasco, a fictional car model featured in the novel Money by Martin Amis
In music:
- Fiasco (band), rock trio formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2005
- Lupe Fiasco, American rapper from Chicago, Illinois
- The Casual Fiasco, a Burlington (VT) rock/reggae band
- Wesley Willis Fiasco, a Chicago punk rock band
- Fiestas and Fiascos, an LP album by Lifter Puller (2000)
Other:
- fiasco (bottle), a traditional Italian straw-covered wine bottle
- Fiasco (L4 clone), an open-source L4 microkernel family microkernel operating system developed at TU Dresden
- FIASCO, the name used by very early versions of PSPP
- Fiasco (role-playing game), a game designed to create a Coen brothers-style story
- "Fiasco", a monthly print and digital fashion, arts and lifestyle magazine.
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Fiasco
Nederlands (Dutch)
fiasco (mislukking), (wijn)fles
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φιάσκο, παταγώδης αποτυχία
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fiasco (m)
Русский (Russian)
провал, неудача
Español (Spanish)
n. - fiasco, fracaso
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
惨败, 大失败
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 慘敗, 大失敗
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) إخفاق تام
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כישלון, מפלה, פיאסקו
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