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debacle
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[dɪˈbɑːk(ə)l], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco
(e.g: the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle)
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Origin
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early 19th century (in sense ‘the breaking up of ice in a river’): from French débâcle, from débâcler ‘unleash’, from dé- ‘un-’ + bâcler ‘to bar’ (from Latin baculum ‘staff’)
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