epic fail

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Noun

epic fail (plural epic fails)

(Internet slang) Utter, total failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.
- 2013, Wendy M. Anderson; Geraldine Woods; Lesley J. Ward, English Grammar Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:
  The second sentence is saying ‘Gina greedily anticipates even more than the monthly doubling of her bank balance’ — more than is modifying expects. Not the same meaning at all. Sorry computer, epic fail!
- 2014, Lauren Morrill, Being Sloane Jacobs, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 95:
  “What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]
- 2014, Leah Raeder, Unteachable, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 29:
  So yeah, epic fail on my part when I didn't recognize one of Kubrick's most iconic works, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- 2014, Sheila Agnew, Central Park Showdown, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
  I was happy with my new, more sophisticated haircut but the rest of my efforts were pretty much epic fail.
- 2016, Kristen Reidel, “Bodies Of Water”, in 12 Monkeys, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire):
  I'm tied to a chair. Epic fail.

Translations

total failure

Finnish: täydellinen moka
French: échec épique m
Italian: fiasco epico m
Russian: по́лный прова́л (pólnyj provál), сокруши́тельный прова́л (sokrušítelʹnyj provál), фиа́ско (ru) (fiásko), были́нный отка́з (bylínnyj otkáz) (computer slang, machine translation of "epic fail")
Spanish: fracaso épico m

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