Fugazi
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Fugazi may refer to:
- Fugazi (band), a rock band from Washington, D.C.
- Fugazi (album), a 1984 studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named Fugazi
- Fugazi (bar), a popular martini bar and lounge in Buffalo, NY
- 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 fake/not authentic, made famous by the popular tvshow The Sopranos. However this is not an italian term
- 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)
- Fugazi (WWII), Japanese deserters during World War II
- Fugazzi College, now part of National College of Business & Technology
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