"dumpster fire" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Michael Cosgrove, Imperfect Passage: A Sailing Story of Vision, Terror, and Redemption",
          "text": "As honeymoons go, this was a total dumpster fire.",
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          "ref": "2015 August 28, Kevin Trahan, “The University of Illinois is a dumpster fire”, in insidenu.com, retrieved 2016-10-27",
          "text": "Illinois football and the entire university are in a state of mayhem. . . . Illinois athletics is a dumpster fire right now.",
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          "ref": "2016 July 7, Sean Sullivan, Philip Rucker, “Trump, seeking GOP unity, has tense meeting with Senate Republicans”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2016-10-27",
          "text": "[W]ith these two candidates, this election remains a dumpster fire.",
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        "A chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person; a disaster."
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        "(US, slang) A chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person; a disaster."
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          "sense": "chaotic, unpleasant and unmanageable thing, situation or person",
          "word": "shemozzle"
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          "word": "tire fire"
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          "text": "When the arsonist lit the dumpster, he started a dumpster fire."
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          "word": "hot mess"
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          "text": "As honeymoons go, this was a total dumpster fire.",
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