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FIASCO (fiascoes)
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Irregular inflected form: fiascoes
Dictionary entry overview: What does fiasco mean?
• FIASCO (noun)
The noun FIASCO has 1 sense:
1. a sudden and violent collapse
Familiarity information: FIASCO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sudden and violent collapse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
debacle; fiasco
Hypernyms ("fiasco" is a kind of...):
collapse (a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in)
Context examples
Well, after this fiasco I went into the bedroom and examined that also.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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