emphasis If you describe an event or attempt to do something as a fiasco, you are emphasizing that it fails completely. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him It was a bit of a fiasco. = debacle. fiascoes fiascos an event that is completely unsuccessful, in a way that is very embarrassing or disappointing = disaster
() From Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”) from Late Latin flasca, flascō "bottle, container", of Germanic origin, from Frankish flaska "bottle, flask" from Proto-Germanic *flaskon- (“bottle”); see flask. "Failure" sense comes through French (faire fiasco) from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally, "to make a bottle"), of unknown origin.