snafu

[ US /ˈsnæfu/ ]
[ UK /snˈæfuː/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to be in a state of complete confusion
ADJECTIVE
  1. snarled or stalled in complete confusion
    situation normal--all fucked-up
NOUN
  1. an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
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How To Use snafu In A Sentence

  • These are essentially remediable snafus.
  • It was a catchphrase for national shame now, applicable to virtually every snafu.
  • Accounts differ about what happened to snafu that deal, but because it didn't go through, IBM contacted a small company called Microsoft.
  • That last sentence has a green underline on my word processor, and when I right click to see what grammatical snafu I've made, it says ‘Wordiness.’
  • This latest snafu is the result of a little-noticed change to the gift-card rules of the Credit CARD Act of 2009. Fed allows continued sale of mislabeled holiday gift cards
  • Word on the street was that Snafu takes a cue from the Superman comics: by day a mild mannered watering hole but by night a super human drink fest. Midtown Happy Hour: Reconnaissance Work at Snafu Bar | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • I'd rather have an honest gay who is comfortable with his/her sexuality than a slithery, snaky, whiny, hypocritical, philandering, lying, thieving mark snafu-rd for my governonr. Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer
  • Clinton even turned snafus in the Northern Ireland peace process into potential political advantage.
  • The mailings did go to the correct homes and won't be resent despite the name snafu, said Graig Lubsen, the BMV's deputy communications director. Agency gets first names wrong for 58,600 Indiana drivers
  • In a follow-up to the seaweed snafu news of these past weeks, we can report that some of the weed has been dispersed but there remains a persistent pungency in the on-shore breeze.
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