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rumsfail 

1. To self-destruct, melt-down or implode under the weight of one's own arrogance. 2. To fail spectacularly, particularly in matters of warfare or diplomacy; to plunge into chaos. 3. Absolute, unmitigated disaster of national or international proportions and consequence; policy failure so utterly abject and miserable as to approach the realm of the epic.
"Although long considered to be a costly and murderous fiasco, the prisoner abuse scandal revealed the war in Iraq to be nothing short of a rumsfailure." See also: "Karma"
rumsfail by jesse May 18, 2004
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Rumsfailed 

Common nickname for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (because he failed, get it?). Somehow this man set the world's most powerful military against a bunch of starving neighborhood thugs with counterfeit AKs and homemade bombs, and lost. Rumsfailed was able to achieve this fabulous result because he is a civilian businessman with no military experience, and ran the war as a business, trying to make money for his employers (General Dynamics, Halliburton, Carlisle Group), rather than actually trying to win or stabilize the country.
Rumsfailed says:
"I'm against deploying troops in wars. When you pay a soldier the soldier gets the money. When you buy billions of dollars worth of uneeded crap from Halliburton and General Dynamics then the military industrial complex gets the profit. Which is why we fight meaningless wars like this in the first place."

"Fuck the doomed, I'm senile."
Rumsfailed by Lt. Dungheap May 11, 2006
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Donald Rumsfailed 

Donald Rumsfeld (get it, because he failed).
Set phasers to fail, it's Donald Rumsfailed

Donald Rumsfailed 

Common nickname for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (because he failed, get it?). Somehow this man set the world's most powerful military against a bunch of starving neighborhood thugs with counterfeit AKs and homemade bombs, and lost. Rumsfailed was able to achieve this fabulous result because he is a civilian businessman with no military experience, and ran the war as a business, trying to make money for his employers (General Dynamics, Halliburton, Carlisle Group), rather than actually trying to win or stabilize the country.
Donald Rumsfailed says:
"I'm against deploying troops in wars. When you pay a soldier the soldier gets the money. When you buy billions of dollars worth of uneeded crap from Halliburton and General Dynamics then the military industrial complex gets the profit. Which is why we fight meaningless wars like this in the first place."

"Fuck the doomed, I'm senile."

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026