SNAFU

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Stands for: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up

Wartime slang for a situation that is a mess, yet routinely so.

The acronym spells out to "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up" (the polite version), coined in the US military in World War II. Its bite is the word "normal": the chaos is expected, which is exactly why it still fits operations work.

Also known as: snafu

Sources

  • US military slang, WWII

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