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   fiasco

   /fɪˈaskəʊ/

   noun

   • 1. a complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one: "his plans turned into a fiasco"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from Italian, literally ‘bottle, flask’, in the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, figuratively ‘fail in a performance’: the reason for the figurative sense is unexplained.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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