Usually means: Significant failures, often publicly embarrassing.
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  1. debacles: Merriam-Webster
  2. debacles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. debacles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Debacles, debacles: Wordnik
  5. debacles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. debacles: Wiktionary
  7. debacles: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. debacles: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (debacle)

noun:  An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
noun:  (ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
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