Polite replacement term for clusterfuck. When speaking in certain social situations, a speaker may feel the necessity to dramatize the futility of events, but decorum prevents. By utilizing clusterflop, the gravity of the event is emphasized without resorting to profanity
clusterflake is the social phenomenon characterized by a buttload of people just not showing up, typically so sporadically, in such numbers, and with so little advance warning that the original plan or plans are thrown into disintegrating disarray. (syn: cluster flake)
"Despite a week's notice more than half the movie group clusterflaked, most without even calling."
"We'd arranged a big dinner, followed by a meet with another crew, then all hit a party downtown. Three people showed up in total, the whole night. It was a complete cluster flake."
Originally a military term describing a disorganized situation with pending dissappointing results, 'ClusterShag' is used when describing such situations when profanity is not tolerated.
Gained popularity on late night television(The Daily Show) when recounting the actions leading up to the 2010 UK elections.
Office Manager: "The computers are down, our receptionist called in sick, the fax machine is on the fritz and the auditors will be here in 20 minutes. We're Screwed!!!"
Employee: " I know. It's a virtual clustershag of endless possibilities"