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    [Noun]  | "fi*as*co" | \ fē-ˈa-(ˌ)skō \


    1: a complete failure


    Origin: circa 1854 ;

     French, from Italian, from fare fiasco, literally, to make a bottle;

    [Noun]  | "fi*as*co" | \ fē-ˈä-(ˌ)skō \


    1: bottle, flask; especially : a bulbous long-necked straw-covered bottle for wine


    Origin: 1887 ;

     Italian, from Late Latin flasco bottle {mat|flask|};

    [Noun]  | "fiascoes" 


    1: something that has failed;


      * e.g., " ... undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry "





    [Noun]  | "fiasco" 


    1: something that has failed;


      * e.g., " ... undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry "





     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: An elmore or complete fuck up. Couldn't be worse.

      * e.g.,  ... Bush's handling of Katrina was a real elmore, nothing short of a fiasco. 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: A complete failure that carries a connotation that, by better planning or execution, could have been avoided.

      * e.g.,  ... The landfall of Katrina was a disaster; the emergency response was a fiasco. 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: In the conventional dictionaries, a fiasco is a complete and utter failure. Especially one which is embarrassing for the severity of the failure, or the severity of the ineptitude leading to it.

      * e.g.,  ... Hurrican Katrina did a lot of damage, and the response to the human tradgedy in New Orleans will be remembered as a gigantic fiasco. 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: An event that has the appearance of falling completely apart at any moment, yet somehow manages to work out. Characterized by increased levels of both stress and enjoyment. Provides excellent story-telling material.

      * e.g.,  ... That trip where we drank rum and warm Pepsi and got stranded on that island and it started raining so we had to sleep in an old Datsun on that guy's front lawn when you were puking and we almost lost our jobs...man, that was a fiasco! 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: An unforseen event which is often unfortunate in nature.

      * e.g.,  ... My boss came in to work early today and caught me taking bong rips in the walk in freezer. What a fiasco. 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: a rare italian sports car, discontinued shortly after initial production because it was unreliable and just not very good.

      * e.g.,  ... you drive a fiasco? man, just trade that lame ass shit in for a yugo or some shit like that! 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: the incredible emcee from the Washington D.C. area

      * e.g.,  ... man, fiasco ROCKS 

     [ "fiasco" ]

    1: Sexual act including a female and many males. Called a fiasco cuz the shit gets out of hand!

      * e.g.,  ... oh she is a bust down? FIASCO!! 

     [ "Lupe Fiasco" ]

    1: Lupe Fiasco: One of few real rappers who can actually rap.

      * e.g.,  ... Lupe Fiasco is one of best rappers alive. 


     [ "Lupe Fiasco" ]

    2: mini bio: Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 17, 1982),1 better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is a Grammy-winning American hip-hop artist. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. Prominent hip hop mogul Jay-Z describes him as a "breath of fresh air" in a new hip hop world characterized by mainstream pop and glamor, a sharp contrast with the widespread lyricism-focused rap of the 1990s, and critics have called him the "Hip-Hop Generation's Next Vanguard.

     [ "ball fiasco" ]

    1: bah-ll fee-ass koh noun. A ball fiasco is a term used in physics to describe a specific amount of spherical objects set loose creating a hellish and chaotic lab environment, often resulting in a seating change. No less than three and no more than ten balls are needed for a situation to be classified as a "ball fiasco".

      * e.g.,  ... "Joshy V will be awfully upset if we cause another ball fiasco" "If you keep creating ball fiascos within class, I'll have to re-work our seating arrangements" 

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