[fɪˈaskəʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one
(e.g: his plans turned into a fiasco)


Phrases:

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