cluster fuck

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Singular
cluster fuck

Plural
cluster fucks

cluster fuck (plural cluster fucks)

  1. (US, British, military, slang) A confusing or chaotic situation or event, often caused by a failure of communication, an excessive amount of people attempting to accomplish a given task, or a complex environment.
    • 1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187, tt0091187
      When asked how he thought the military exercise went, Highway responded, "It's a cluster fuck. ".
    • 1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, ISBN 0451167317, p. 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.
    • 2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, ISBN 189245128X, p. 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.

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