goatfuck

plural goatfucks · alternative goat fuck · alternative goat-fuck

1. slangvulgargovernmentA chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.

   "What a goatfuck," I said.

   1971, Tom Mayer, The Weary Falcon

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   "Well, sir—frankly, Admiral, everything up to now has been a real goatfuck, so far as SpecWar's been concerned. [...]"

   1992, Richard Marcinko, Rogue warrior

   [...] visiting Young Republicans, who learned their manners in frat houses and who would surely be shitfaced and creating a scene—what Bush Advance was pleased to call "a real goat fuck"—but Advance knew, if Lindsay got to the rope line and asked the President elect to stop by, Bush would never say no to a friend, so then they'd have the Free World's Leaders-to-be in a YR goat fuck, [...]

   1992, William S. Burroughs, Esquire, volume 117, page 88

   He killed two other men a couple of days before and those two did happen to be ours. Along with the three at that colossal goatfuck a few days before that. All right?

   2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

   "[...] Do you guys rehearse these goatfucks, or are you just that clumsy by nature?"

   2006, Hal von Luebbert, Letters to Aaron-the Hal Luebbert Story: America and Its Freedom Myths, page 258

   "With all due respect, sir," Shibli said, "your operation at Site Tango had all the finesse of a goat-fuck. [...] "

   2009, Paul Brooks, Shibli: An Odyssey of Terror, page 95

   Synonyms: clusterfuck, debacle, fiasco, FUBAR, goat rope, quagmire, SNAFU, trainwreck

2. slangA tightly-packed crowd of people, especially photographers, journalists and cameramen, covering a news story.

   What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared.

   2001, Simon Hoggart, “Thatcher stars in Return of The Mummy”, in The Guardian

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   As I got out of the cab I could see that a weapons-grade goatfuck was underway outside. There was a heaving melee of buyers, photographers, bloggers, models, slebs, men in high heels and yellow suits, editors, liggers, all pushing to get past the velvet rope.

   2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor

   Synonyms: scrum