debacle, fiasco
(noun) a sudden and violent collapse
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fiasco (plural fiascos or fiascoes)
A sudden or unexpected failure.
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
Synonym: debacle
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
• Facios, cafiso, fascio-
Source: Wiktionary
Fi*as"co, n.; pl. Fiascoes. Etym: [It.]
Definition: A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
