debacle
noun
[ deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l ]
• a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
• "the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle"
Similar:
fiasco,
failure,
catastrophe,
disaster,
disintegration,
mess,
wreck,
ruin,
downfall,
collapse,
defeat,
rout,
overthrow,
conquest,
trouncing,
foul-up,
screw-up,
hash,
botch,
washout,
fail,
cock-up,
pig's ear,
car crash,
snafu,
fuck-up,
balls-up,
Origin:
early 19th century (in sense ‘the breaking up of ice in a river’): from French débâcle, from débâcler ‘unleash’, from dé- ‘un-’ + bâcler ‘to bar’ (from Latin baculum ‘staff’).
