Charlie Foxtrot

English

Etymology

From clusterfuck, abbreviated as CF and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Noun

Charlie Foxtrot (plural Charlie Foxtrots)

1. (military slang) Clusterfuck.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) CF

   That commission's project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who's in charge over there?

   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Hocus (Debra Wilson Skelton), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant:

     Charlie Foxtrot! Tower One approach has active Triple-A!

   • 2008 May 14, Michiko Kakutani, “How Abu Ghraib Became the Anything-Goes Prison”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     […] he quotes Tim Dugan, a civilian interrogator at Abu Ghraib, as saying: “It was Charlie Foxtrot without a doubt without a doubt^[sic]. I’ve never seen anything like that, and I never thought that I would see American soldiers so depressed, and morale so low.”

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Related terms

• clusterfuck