"clusterfuck" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/ [US] Audio: En-au-clusterfuck.ogg Forms: clusterfucks [plural]
Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cluster|fuck}} cluster + fuck Head templates: {{en-noun}} clusterfuck (plural clusterfucks)
  1. (slang, vulgar) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence. Tags: slang, vulgar Derived forms: clusterbumble, clusterbùrach, clusterfuckery, fustercluck Translations (chaotic situation): kaotisk situation [common-gender] (Danish), teringzooi [masculine] (Dutch), härdelli (Finnish), bordel [masculine] (French), merdier (French), caillon [masculine] (French), foutoir [masculine] (French), burdel [masculine] (Polish), chujnia [feminine, vulgar] (Polish), rozpierducha [feminine, vulgar] (Polish), sraka [feminine, vulgar] (Polish), pierdolnia [feminine, vulgar] (Polish), jebutnia [feminine, vulgar] (Polish), pierdolnik [masculine] (Polish), przypał [masculine] (Polish), bordel [masculine] (Portuguese), zona (Portuguese), по́лная жо́па (pólnaja žópa) [feminine] (Russian), пизде́ц (pizdéc) [masculine] (Russian), барда́к (bardák) [masculine] (Russian), kaotična situacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zajebancija [feminine, vulgar] (Serbo-Croatian), zajeb [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), кластерфак (klasterfak) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), klasterfak [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), buirdiellu (Sicilian), pifostio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-clusterfuck-en-noun-ZRTp-5cV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Sicilian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 88 12 Synonyms: car crash [UK], CF, Charlie Foxtrot, cluster, clusterball, comedy of errors, debacle, dysfunction, fiasco, FUBAR, goatfuck, goat rope, gong show, imbroglio, omnishambles, quagmire, SNAFU, train wreck [US]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cluster fuck

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/ [US] Audio: En-au-clusterfuck.ogg Forms: clusterfucks [present, singular, third-person], clusterfucking [participle, present], clusterfucked [participle, past], clusterfucked [past]
Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cluster|fuck}} cluster + fuck Head templates: {{en-verb}} clusterfuck (third-person singular simple present clusterfucks, present participle clusterfucking, simple past and past participle clusterfucked)
  1. (vulgar) To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of. Tags: vulgar Related terms: FUBAR, rape, fuck Translations (to make a total mess of): toheloida (Finnish), sössiä (Finnish), tumpeloida [colloquial] (Finnish), ryssiä [vulgar] (Finnish), sjebati (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-clusterfuck-en-verb-YiV0mLDB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cluster fuck

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187:",
          "text": "[Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.",
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          "text": "1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell\n\"Mongolian Cluster Fuck\" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event."
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          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, →ISBN, page 151:",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1994, James O'Barr, Alex Proyas, The Crow:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "ref": "1995, John Barnes, Mother of Storms:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "ref": "2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction:",
          "text": "[…] and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.",
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          "ref": "2005, Charles W. Sasser, Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II:",
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          "text": "[CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck."
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          "text": "2013: Barbara Kruger: What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement in response to the Supreme v Married To The Mob battle"
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          "ref": "1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187:",
          "text": "[Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.",
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        },
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          "text": "1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell\n\"Mongolian Cluster Fuck\" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event."
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, →ISBN, page 151:",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1994, James O'Barr, Alex Proyas, The Crow:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "ref": "1995, John Barnes, Mother of Storms:",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction:",
          "text": "[…] and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Charles W. Sasser, Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II:",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, IMDB tt0887883",
          "text": "[CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck."
        },
        {
          "text": "2013: Barbara Kruger: What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement in response to the Supreme v Married To The Mob battle"
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      "word": "Charlie Foxtrot"
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      "word": "clusterball"
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      "word": "goat rope"
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      "word": "teringzooi"
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      "word": "härdelli"
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      "sense": "chaotic situation",
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      "word": "bordel"
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      "word": "caillon"
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      "word": "foutoir"
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      "word": "burdel"
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      "sense": "chaotic situation",
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      "word": "bordel"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
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      "word": "zona"
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      "word": "FUBAR"
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      "word": "rape"
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