0 something planned that goes wrong and is a complete failure, usually in an embarrassing way:
The only military expedition, in 1624, ended in a fiasco.
The real cause for the ' fiasco ' was the ' intrinsic deficiencies ' of the movement.
Unfortunately, though, the causes of a success or fiasco are rarely analysed in much detail.
Labour identifiers were not significantly more or less likely than other voters to participate, despite any general disillusion occasioned by the party leadership fiasco.
However, the expedition proved to be a complete fiasco.
The communist uprising of 1923 was a fiasco.
Indigenista experiments were generally a fiasco, and the pluralist moment short-lived.
In the early to mid 1990s when it became apparent that this initial stimulus to the private market had been a costly fiasco, there was a considerable consumer backlash.