Fugazi (disambiguation)

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Fugazi may refer to:

  • Fugazi, a rock band from Washington, D.C., and its eponymous début EP
  • Fugazi, a 1984 studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named "Fugazi"
  • Fugazi, a popular martini bar and lounge in Buffalo, New York
  • Club Fugazi, a San Francisco venue home to the long-running Beach Blanket Babylon cabaret show
  • An Italian-American slang term for something that is forged/not authentic, made famous by the movie Donnie Brasco, as well as the popular tv show The Sopranos. N.B.: The word "fugazi" is not Italian, but was first used by Italian-Americans.
  • A slang version of "Fugacious" derived from Latin fugax, fugac-, meaning "ready to flee, flying; hence, fleeting, transitory"
    • This resulted in the backronym "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In", a U.S. Army slang from the Vietnam war era, meaning chaotic, out-of-control fighting, especially in jungle warfare. Used as in a soldier fucked up, got ambushed and zipped into a body bag. (Similar to SNAFU)
  • Fugazzi College, now part of National College of Business & Technology
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