Crossword clues for snafu
snafu
- Big problem
- Big glitch
- R-rated military acronym for a chaotic situation
- Lost paperwork result, perhaps
- Hot mess
- Big mix-up
- Awry, to a G.I
- Army problem
- Army glitch
- A big mess
- Royal foul-up
- Muddled state
- Muddled mess
- More than just a mistake
- Mixed-up mess
- Major screwup
- Major screw-up
- Major mixup
- Major malfunction
- Major disruption
- Major complication
- Huge mess
- Heck of a mess
- Botched job
- Big snag
- Bad spot
- Typical mess
- Typical bureaucratic botch-up
- Totally fubarred job
- Royal mess
- Reason for an apology, maybe
- Problem that has ballooned
- One fine mess
- Not just a glitch
- Mix up, G.I. style
- Mistake whose name has military origins
- Military muddle
- Military acronym since WWI
- Messed-up situation
- Massive mess
- Major's major mishap
- Major snag
- Major goof
- Lost paperwork result
- Impolite army acronym meaning "a big mess"
- Huge screwup
- Huge mix-up
- Hash tag
- GI term for a complete muddle
- Disastrous situation, in military lingo
- Confusing mistake
- Complete fiasco
- Colossal mess, in military slang
- Bureaucratic mess
- Bureaucratic bungle
- Big, messy mix-up
- Big-time mess or mistake, in military slang
- Big-time glitch
- Big mixup
- Big hiccup
- Big botch-up
- An egregious error
- Acronym for a major mess
- Acronym for a big mess
- A lot more than a little mistake
- Super blooper
- More than a boo-boo
- Bollixed up
- Big mess
- Catchall reason for failure
- Mix-up, to a G.I
- Screw-up
- Muddled situation
- Big muddle
- Not just a tie-up
- State of confusion
- Major miscue
- Acronym since 1941
- Major mix-up, in military lingo
- Major mess
- Major muddle
- Awful mistake
- Tangle
- Mess of a mess
- Major bollix
- Chaotic situation
- Total mess
- Big mistake
- Major glitch
- Bungle
- Real mix-up
- Real mess
- Utter mess
- An acronym often used by soldiers in World War II Situation Normal All Fucked Up
- Megamistake
- One heck of a mess
- Awry, to a G.I.
- Chaos, G.I. style
- Mix-up, to a G.I.
- Chaos among G.I.'s
- Mishap
- Confusion, to a G.I.
- Mixed up, G.I. style
- Cause of many a blue funk
- Fouled up
- Blooey
- In a mess, G.I. style
- In utter confusion
- Muddle, G.I. style
- Mix-up, G.I. style
- Chaos upset United supporters
- First characters assembled in military mess
- Problem for all to see inflames back
- Impressing teacher in the end, naughty boy used to try hard
- Usual chaos of university supporters getting upset
- United supporters return, causing chaos as usual
- United supporters going round creating chaos
- United supporters turning up in a bad way
- Screw up
- Fly in the ointment
- Major military muff
- Utter confusion
- Foul up
- It's a mess
- Confused situation
- Confused condition
- Messy situation
- Chaotic mess
- Military mix-up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
acr. (alternative case form of SNAFU English) n. (alternate form of lang=en SNAFU)
WordNet
adj. snarled or stalled in complete confusion; "situation normal--all fucked-up" [syn: fucked-up]
n. an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
v. cause to be in a state of complete confusion
Wikipedia
Snafu or SNAFU may refer to:
Snafu was a British rhythm and blues/ rock band of the 1970s, featuring vocalist Bobby Harrison and the slide guitarist Micky Moody.
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 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" 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.