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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: situation normal all fucked up

snafu

 noun
     
sna‧fu [countable]
American English informal a situation in which a plan does not happen in the way it should:
There were no major snafus.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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