debaclenoun [ C ]
uk/deɪˈbɑː.kəl/us/dɪˈbɑː.kəl/a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization:
The collapse of the company was described as the greatest financial debacle in US history.
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Accidents and disasters
- a knockout blow idiom
- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- banana skin
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- devil
- disastrous
- emergency
- forest fire
- holocaust
- knockout
- meltdown
- misadventure
- snafu
- the devil to pay idiom
- tragedy
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