epic fail

noun

plural epic fails

: a notable, obvious, and usually public failure

What was supposed to be a kind gesture turned into an epic fail, and now a viral video. … Morgan accidentally missed the step and faceplanted into the front door.—

97X.com

Kendall Jenner struggled to chop up a cucumber during Episode 5 of "The Kardashians," and her epic fail prompted Kris Jenner to request assistance from their chef.—

Leena Nasir

UBER's self-driving project was basically an epic fail …—

Jim Collins

… he [David Novak, former CEO of Yum Brands] talks about his epic fail: Crystal Pepsi, the clear version of Pepsi that he developed in 1992 when he was Pepsi's Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales.—

Annette Franz

Examples of epic fail in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web A week after the end of another magical regular season, the incredible underachieving Dodgers are on the brink of another epic fail after suffering a second consecutive defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks in their best-of-five National League Division Series. —

Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023

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