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snafu
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Word definitions for snafu in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ AOL had suffered several technical snafus over those three days. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Clinton even turned snafus in the Northern Ireland peace process into potential political advantage. ▪ He stepped down as White House ...
Usage examples of snafu.
Boston AA meetings are unusually long, an hour and a half instead of the national hour, but here they also have this formal break at about 45 minutes where everybody can grab a sandwich or Oreo and a sixth cup of coffee and stand around and chat, and bond, where people can pull their sponsors aside and confide some trite insight or emotional snafu that the sponsor can swiftly, privately validate but also place in the larger imperative context of the primary need not to absorb a Substance today, just today, no matter what happens.
Meanwhile, Indians from the Pojoaque pueblo are out fouling up traffic on a major state highway because of a snafu of another sort.
This was matched by an American snafu when the Tenth Air Force Headquarters sent an antiaircraft battery on the first transports instead of the infantry and food preordered by Merrill and Hunter.
She had seen too many snafus in Somalia to believe in even the best-intentioned organizations.
Any big organization or government has snafus in communications, as you know.
Safwan, their unforgiving timetable ruined by half a dozen minor snafus and a midair refueling problem.
However, Foster was quickly aware of some glaring snafus, somewhere along the line.
Foster was quickly aware of some glaring snafus, somewhere along the line.
The high-def masks, when not in use, simply hung on a small hook on the side of a TP's phone-console, admittedly looking maybe a bit surreal and discomfiting when detached and hanging there empty and wrinkled, and sometimes there were potentially awkward mistaken-identity snafus involving multi-user family or company phones and the hurried selection and attachment of the wrong mask taken from some long row of empty hanging masks but all in all the masks seemed initially like a viable industry response to the vanity,-stress,-and-Nixonian-facial-image problem.
Instead of going to Cleveland with their necks shaved for the drop of the guillotine blade, they would show up with battle plans drawn to reverse the effects of the Zingers snafu.