Clusterfuck

South Sudan.

"If you looked up clusterfuck in a dictionary, well you wouldn't find anything because clusterfuck isn't a real word. But if it was, there would probably be a picture of South Sudan next to it."

by digeridoo. March 5, 2021

clusterfuckassery

What you experience when the company you work for acquires another business that has nothing to do with your business and you have to integrate it.

This public relations fiasco has resulted in some real clusterfuckassery.

by SuperJRock March 2, 2010

Clusterfucked

When you're days away from coming out of your fourth COVID lockdown and your local health authority advises that a new and dangerous strain has just been detected and that it would be imprudent to open up until the source of the new cluster is identified. In this context, clusterfuck is a portmanteau of COVID cluster plus being situationally fucked.

Health Official: 'With the discovery of this new and highly transmissible variant, which is unrelated to the existing outbreak, the government will not be relaxing COVID restrictions as previously scheduled. In summary, you have just been clusterfucked"

by Ernest_Hemmingroid June 4, 2021

Globular Clusterfuck

A number of closely interrelated disasters that are connected to one another through their collective gravity.

The expression is the combination of the astronomical term globular cluster for group of stars and a clusterfuck.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will ruin corporate reputations, damage the fishing industry, kill countless fish and birds, pollute beaches and coastal wetlands. In short it is a globular clusterfuck that will take years to recover from.

World War I, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression and World War 2 are viewed by many historians as a globular clusterfuck that spanned over three decades.

by AYYFRON June 1, 2010

Clusterfuck

A way to describe the current economic state and quality of life in South Sudan.

"Did you hear about South Sudan?"
"Yeah, it's a real clusterfuck"

by blairjohnstone June 15, 2021

clusterfuck trifecta

This is the perfect storm of government, in which there is simultaneous failure of all three levels of government: local, state, and federal.

The handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was a clusterfuck trifecta par excellence.

by Duckbutt July 26, 2006

clusterfucklet

Clusterfucklet - (noun) official management term to describe something not quite so catastrophic as a true Clusterfuck, but certainly exhibiting more clusterfuckiness than a mere ballsup.

The clusterfucklet reported in the morning didn't bring the ENTIRE system down, but enough to cause some shouty emails in various directions

by tangentc June 2, 2016