clusterfuck (English)

Alternative forms

  • cluster_fuck

    • Etymology

    Reportedly coined by the w:Hippie|hippie poet w:Ed_Sanders|Ed_Sanders in the 1960s, in the form Mongolian_clusterfuck; it is frequently used in the military.

    Pronunciation

  • - /ˈklʌst.ə(ɹ)ˌfʌk/,

    /klVst.@(r\)%fVk/

    • Noun

    vulgar

    A chaotic mess that might be compared to group intercourse|sex, in which participants are so intertwined and intermingled that they might penetrate each other rather than their intended target. Its more precise usage describes a particular kind of Catch-22, in which multiple complicated problems mutually interfere with each other's solution. The looser usage, referring to any chaotic situation, probably prevails.

    * 1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell p. 216

    *: "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.

    * 1994: James O'Barr / Alex Proyas, The Crow

    *: 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 ...

    * 1995: John Barnes, Mother of Storms

    *: 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 ...

    * 2004: Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction

    *: ... and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.

    * 2005: Charles W. Sasser, Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II

    *: It was a clusterfuck, a deadly clusterfuck. When the doughs finally got off the ground in some numbers and charged into the woods, the Krauts broke contact ...

    * 2008: Joel & Ethan Coen, Burn after Reading

    *: Jesus, what a clusterfuck!. When CIA chief (J.K.Simmons) finally comments all the mess which nobody ever understood fully ...

    Synonyms

  • Charlie_Foxtrot
  • CF
  • cluster_foxtrot
  • fiasco
  • debacle
  • imbroglio
  • comedy_of_errors
  • SNAFU
  • dysfunctional
  • quagmire
  • trainwreck

    • Derived terms

  • fustercluck

    • See also

  • cluster_fuck - for the US military etymology
  • FUBAR
  • rape
  • fuck

    • Fullständig information på

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clusterfuck

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