snafu

IPA: snˈæfu

Root Word: SNAFU

noun

  • A ridiculously chaotic situation.
  • A major glitch or breakdown.
  • Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU [A ridiculously chaotic situation.]

verb

  • (military, slang) To screw up or foul up.
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Examples of "snafu" in Sentences

  • It's an acronym just like SNAFU.
  • But there they get into a true SNAFU.
  • It does not mean running into a SNAFU.
  • He was also a founder member of Snafu.
  • I cant find it, or there was a snafu at Newsweek.
  • I thought it was a technical SNAFU in the database.
  • Please disregard this SNAFU and focus on the question.
  • It included a newsreel and a cartoon of Private Snafu .
  • That said, the Burress/Toomer snafu is embarrassing. — cph
  • I think the online idea snafu is a big slap in the face for IPL.
  • A technical snafu is keeping Elizabeth Bear's new book off the shelves?
  • Move the not SNAFU stuff to Snafu, or delete it if it fails other guidelines.
  • The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted.
  • This latest snafu is the result of a little-noticed change to the gift-card rules of the Credit CARD Act of 2009.
  • − Dense dialogue makes the story and characters difficult to get into, and the caption / subtitle snafu is embarrassing.
  • 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.
  • But after a major label snafu and family commitments subsided, they managed to get together 10 new songs, with a handful leftover that will make B-Sides or the beginnings of the next Autolux album.
  • No, the best way to avoid the running-out-of-players snafu is to go back to the game's roots and take a page out of the youth baseball rule book, where a starting player can be reinserted into his original spot in the batting order after he's been taken out.

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