Meanings
plural Charlie Foxtrots
- slanggovernmentClusterfuck.
That commission's project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who's in charge over there?
2 more examples
Charlie Foxtrot! Tower One approach has active Triple-A!
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Hocus (Debra Wilson Skelton), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant[…]he quotes Tim Dugan, a civilian interrogator at Abu Ghraib, as saying: “It was Charlie Foxtrot without a doubt without a doubt^([sic]). I’ve never seen anything like that, and I never thought that I would see American soldiers so depressed, and morale so low.”
2008 May 14, Michiko Kakutani, “How Abu Ghraib Became the Anything-Goes Prison”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCSynonyms: CF
Synonyms & antonyms
nounClusterfuck.
Origin
From clusterfuck, abbreviated as CF and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Charlie Foxtrot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Charlie%20Foxtrot
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