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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snafu
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 chief of staff in 1994 after a series of White House snafus.
▪ It was a catchphrase for national shame now, applicable to virtually every snafu.
▪ What do you think would happen if you wrote a book detailing your snafus?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snafu

1941, U.S. military slang, acronym for situation normal, all fucked up, "an expression conveying the common soldier's laconic acceptance of the disorder of war and the ineptitude of his superiors" ["Oxford English Dictionary"]. As an adjective from 1942. In public explanations the word typically was euphemised to fouled.

Wiktionary
snafu

acr. (alternative case form of SNAFU English) n. (alternate form of lang=en SNAFU)

WordNet
snafu
  1. adj. snarled or stalled in complete confusion; "situation normal--all fucked-up" [syn: fucked-up]

  2. n. an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up

  3. v. cause to be in a state of complete confusion

Wikipedia
Snafu

Snafu or SNAFU may refer to:

Snafu (band)

Snafu was a British rhythm and blues/ rock band of the 1970s, featuring vocalist Bobby Harrison and the slide guitarist Micky Moody.

Snafu (album)

Snafu is the first album by Snafu. It has an unusual funky tone for what is essentially an R&B band. The album was issued on the short-lived WWA record label, founded in 1973 by Black Sabbath manager Patrick Meehan.

The track "Goodbye USA" was released as a single, b/w "Dixie Queen" (written by Peter Solley), on the Vertigo label. " Drowning in the Sea of Love" was released as a promo single by Capitol.

Snafu (video game)

Snafu is a video game released by Mattel for its Intellivision video game system in 1981. One of a number of snake games released in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Snafu features players controlling ever-lengthening serpents as they attempt to corner their opponents and trap them.

Snafu (Agent Carter)

"Snafu" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American television series Agent Carter, inspired by the films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the Marvel One-Shot short film also titled Agent Carter. It features the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter as she must face coworkers, who she has deceived while working a secret mission, and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by Chris Dingess and directed by Vincent Misiano.

Hayley Atwell reprises her role as Carter from the film series, and is joined by regular cast members James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, Enver Gjokaj, and Shea Whigham.

"Snafu" originally aired on ABC on February 17, 2015, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 4.15 million viewers.

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.