clusterfuck

Etymology
From. Reportedly coined by poet  as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in .

Noun

 * 1)  A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 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

 * Danish: kaotisk situation
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Polish:, , rozpierducha ,  , pierdolnia , jebutnia , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: kaotična situacija, ,
 * Cyrillic: кластерфак
 * Roman: klasterfak
 * Sicilian: buirdiellu
 * Spanish: pifostio

Verb

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

Translations

 * Finnish: ;, tumpeloida ;
 * Serbo-Croatian: