Noun
clusterfuck (plural clusterfucks)
- (slang, vulgar) A 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 p. 216
- "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.
1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, →ISBN, page 151: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
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, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87: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, 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, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, IMDB tt0887883
- [CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck.
- 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
Translations
chaotic situation
- Danish: kaotisk situation c
- Dutch: teringzooi (nl) m
- Finnish: härdelli (fi)
- French: bordel (fr) m, merdier (fr), caillon (fr) m, foutoir (fr) m
- German: Riesenkacke f, Riesenscheiße (de) f, Riesenchaos n, Riesenfiasko n
- Polish: burdel (pl) m, chujnia (pl) f (vulgar), rozpierducha f (vulgar), sraka (pl) f (vulgar), jebutnia f (vulgar), pierdolnik (pl) m, przypał (pl) m
- Portuguese: bordel (pt) m, zona (pt)
- Russian: по́лная жо́па (ru) f (pólnaja žópa), пизде́ц (ru) m (pizdéc), барда́к (ru) m (bardák)
- Serbo-Croatian: kaotična situacija f, zajebancija (sh) f (vulgar), zajeb (sh) m
- Cyrillic: кластерфак m (klasterfak)
- Roman: klasterfak m
- Sicilian: buirdiellu
- Spanish: pifostio m
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