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clusterfuck

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/Part of speech nounSorted ccefklrstuuStarts with CEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong

Word origin

From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other.

Used in a sentence

  • [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.
  • 1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.
  • 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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