• Military term for an operation in which multiple things have gone wrong. Related to SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up) and FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Repair).
    In radio communication or polite conversation (i.e. with a very senior officer with whom you have no prior experience) the term clusterfuck will often be replaced by the NATO phonetic acronym Charlie Foxtrot.


    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 1 of Clusterfuck.


  • Traditionally/originally of military origin.

    Today, however, clusterfuck is commonly used to descriptively generalize any situation with a large scale of disarray.

    possibly synonyms: mess, disaster

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 2 of Clusterfuck.


  • A Huge problem or situation

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 3 of Clusterfuck.


  • A situation that is totally fucked up, especially as a result of managerial incompetence.
    Originally of military origin; a double play on the word cluster, both evoking multiple fuckups, as used in the term cluster bomb, and evoking the oak leaf or star cluster insignia of the [REMF] who did the fucking.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 4 of Clusterfuck.


  • Large quantity of confused people in a disorganized manner.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 5 of Clusterfuck.


  • When events spiral out of control; when two or more events occur at the same time.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 6 of Clusterfuck.


  • A disastrously mishandled situation or undertaking.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 7 of Clusterfuck.


  • A combination of things going [extremely wrong] in a short period of time within the same general activity -- caused by stupidity and/or [ineptitude].
    A polite term using the same initials would be compound [fiasco].

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 8 of Clusterfuck.


  • a [shitstorm] of [bad stuff] [happening] all at once.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 9 of Clusterfuck.


  • Marine slang -- A clusterfuck was any group of [Marines] big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines [close enough] together to be [wounded] by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up. Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out clusterfuck! and one or more guys would walk away.

    Clusterfuck meaning & definition 10 of Clusterfuck.

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