clusterfuck

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1. idiomaticslangvulgarA chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence.

   1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.

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   [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.

   1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187

   They had a name for something like this in the army—a cluster fuck. Yes. Good name. ... He was sitting here in the middle of a great big cluster fuck

   1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, →ISBN, page 151

   A simple sweep-and-clear turned into a total clusterfuck: T-Bird, trying to explain to Eric how the situation escalated on Devil's Night […]

   1994, James O'Barr, Alex Proyas, The Crow

   Please note also my request that henceforth I wish to be reminded of the possibility of a clusterfuck in any contingency plan or operations proposal […]

   1995, John Barnes, Mother of Storms

   My cousin was in the Army over here in '68. He says don't trust anybody to know what they're doing, calls it a cluster-fuck. Fucked-up-beyond-all-repair, FUBAR he says.

   2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87

   Synonyms: CF, Charlie Foxtrot, cluster, clusterball, clusterbumble, fustercluck

2. slanguncommonvulgarlifestyleA sexual orgy.

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1. idiomaticslangtransitivevulgarTo fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.

   Synonyms: CF, cluster, clusterball, fustercluck