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.