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What is a fiasco?

What is a fiasco? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sudden or unexpected failure.
  2. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
  3. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
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Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, the president ruefully noted after the Cuban fiasco.
Unless, of course, you think the Bay of Bigs fiasco was actually a diabolically clever criminal conspiracy to make JFK look bad.
It was a fiasco and a disaster, but the courage of the soldiers impressed even the Russians.
But it's not often that you see a genuine superpower fling itself into such a total policy fiasco.
A fiasco involving the starting tape led to a false start being called but most of the field were oblivious and carried on.
The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm.

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