bogdown

plural bogdowns

1. informalrareA situation in which something becomes stuck or bogged down.

   But listen to Jimi's brilliant, scorched-earth solo, recorded on the last day of 1969, after Woodstock, after the bogdown in Vietnam, after the riots of 1967, after the assassinations of 1968.

   2008, Mark Fogarty, Went to See the Gypsy: An Amazing Journey to the Heart of Rock and Roll, →ISBN, page 213

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   In their natural jitters as the release of the "balloon" came closer and closer, correspondents and broadcasters had feared technical and administrative bogdowns. which were not exactly rare in military campaigns.

   1966, Eugene Lyons, David Sarnoff: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Pyramid Books, published 1967, page 299