Usually means: Situation normal, all fouled up.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. snafu: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snafu: Merriam-Webster
  3. snafu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snafu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snafu: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snafu: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snafu, snafu: Wordnik
  8. snafu: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SNAFU, snafu: Wiktionary
  10. snafu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snafu: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snafu: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snafu: Dictionary.com
  14. snafu: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snafu: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.N.A.F.U. (The X's), SNAFU (Potty Mouth album), SNAFU, Snafu (Agent Carter), Snafu (Snafu album), Snafu (band), Snafu (disambiguation), Snafu (film), Snafu (magazine), Snafu (video game), Snafu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. snafu: Rhymezone
  18. SNAFU: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. snafu: FreeDictionary.org
  20. snafu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. snafu: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAFU: Netlingo
  2. SNAFU: CCI Computer
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAFU: Acronym Finder
  2. snafu: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. snafu: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SNAFU: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. S.N.A.F.U, S.N.A.F.U: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snafu: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See snafued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Snafu)

noun:  A confused, muddled, or messed-up condition or state; a ridiculously chaotic situation; confusion or chaos regarded as the normal state.
noun:  A major glitch or breakdown; a mistake or blunder.
verb:  (military, slang) To screw up, fuck up, or foul up.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU [A confused, muddled, or messed-up condition or state; a ridiculously chaotic situation; confusion or chaos regarded as the normal state.]

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