/fee as"koh/ or, esp. for 2, /-ah"skoh/ , n. , pl. fiascos, fiascoes .
1. a complete and ignominious failure.
2. a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, esp. Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.
[ 1850-55; 1 ); sense "failure" from It phrase far fiasco to fail, lit., to make a bottle, idiom of uncert. orig. ]
Syn. 1. disaster, catastrophe, debacle, flop, bomb.