Dictionary

clusterfuck

Pronunciation

(RP) IPA: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/
(America) IPA: /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/

Noun

clusterfuck (plural clusterfucks)

(slang, vulgar) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong. It is often caused by incompetence, communication failure, 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."
- 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.
- 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 189245128X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=T53y42RaR7cC&pg=PA87&ots=yJpU0kl8BL&dq=%22cluster+fuck%22+intitle:thunder&sig=0FGfLgiGEP3Yu9JQe1KsDjzwDKw 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.
- 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, tt0887883 ↗
  In the last sequence the CIA-Superior summarized the highly complex events/mess: "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

Synonyms

Translations

French: bordel, merdier, caillon, foutoir
Russian: по́лная жо́па
Spanish: pifostio

Verb

clusterfuck (clusterfucks, present participle clusterfucking; past and past participle clusterfucked)

(vulgar) To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004