# clusterfuck

Pronunciation: US say "KLUS-tur-fuk" /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/; UK/AUS say "KLUS-tuh-fuk" /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/

## Noun

1. A chaotic situation in which everything seems to go wrong, often due to poor communication, complexity, or incompetence. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A messy situation where lots of things go wrong at once, often from confusion or bad planning.
   - _The merger became a clusterfuck once three departments started giving contradictory orders._
   - _What should have been a simple move turned into a complete clusterfuck of lost boxes and broken furniture._

## Verb

2. To bungle something completely; to turn a task or situation into a chaotic mess.
   - Simple: To completely mess something up, usually through carelessness or confusion.
   - _Management clusterfucked the rollout by changing the requirements three times in one week._
   - _If you rush the install, you'll clusterfuck the entire database._

## Other meanings

- (noun) An orgy; a sexual encounter involving multiple participants at the same time.

## Origin

The hippie poet Ed Sanders reportedly invented the term in the form "Mongolian Cluster Fuck." It is made of cluster plus fuck, and the earliest known use dates to about 1965, in the East Village Other.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/clusterfuck (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).