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Omni-shambles

A prodigiously inept individual, typically involved in the political domain. Just as God is omni-potent and 'all-powerful', such an incompetent is omni-shambolic and 'all-failing'. Coined by Malcolm Tucker, of 'The Thick of It' fame.
I was going to ask if you could help me with my science project, but then I remembered you were the omni-shambles so I asked my step-dad for some money so I could download it from the internet instead.
Omni-shambles by FitzyG789 February 15, 2010
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Omnishambles 

A person or situation that looks like a fuck up from all possible angles.

Originally coined in S03E01 of The Thick of It:
Not only have you got a fucking bent husband and a fucking daughter that gets taken to school in a fucking sedan chair, you're also fucking mental. Jesus Christ, see you, you're a fucking omnishambles, that's what you are. You're like that coffee machine, you know: from bean to cup, you fuck up.

– Malcolm Tucker
Omnishambles by arthurdent November 29, 2012
Word of the Day on December 16, 2023

omnishambles 

a person who is not only a shambles in one single aspect but is in fact a shambles in all aspects of life
not only is her love life a mess but she just got fired, she's an omnishambles
omnishambles by hellrocker February 25, 2012

Omnishambles 

A description of something, be it an object, person, or state, that is in all ways a giant clusterfuck.
Steve Gorman made a right omnishambles of that base design.
Omnishambles by trotski1977 July 16, 2016

omnishambles 

noun
informal•British
noun: omnishambles
1. a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.
"anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking kirbie’s sums"
omnishambles by M.N. Legov June 13, 2019

Omnishambles 

What are you too good for SNAFU now?
this world is in Omnishambles.
Omnishambles by Joxnny Volsung November 13, 2012

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026