epic fail
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epic fail (plural epic fails)
- (Internet slang, originally 4chan) Utter, total failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.
- 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 131:
- Maybe next the cloud overhead would open up and a huge cartoon hand emerge from below, pointing at him, accompanied by a thunderous, authorial voice: TOM MERCER. EPIC FAIL.
- 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, 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 (television production), spoken by Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire):
- I'm tied to a chair. Epic fail.
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total failure
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