goatfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatfucks
form: goat fuck
form: goat-fuck
Etymology: From goat + fuck, possibly as a blend of goat rope and clusterfuck.
Senses: examples: text: "What a goatfuck," I said.
ref: 1971, Tom Mayer, The Weary Falcon:
text: "Well, sir—frankly, Admiral, everything up to now has been a real goatfuck, so far as SpecWar's been concerned. [...]"
ref: 1992, Richard Marcinko, Rogue warrior:
text: [...] visiting Young Republicans, who learned their manners in frat houses and who would surely be shitfaced and creating a scene—what Bush Advance was pleased to call "a real goat fuck"—but Advance knew, if Lindsay got to the rope line and asked the President elect to stop by, Bush would never say no to a friend, so then they'd have the Free World's Leaders-to-be in a YR goat fuck, [...]
ref: 1992, William S. Burroughs, Esquire, volume 117, page 88:
text: He killed two other men a couple of days before and those two did happen to be ours. Along with the three at that colossal goatfuck a few days before that. All right?
ref: 2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men:
text: "[...] Do you guys rehearse these goatfucks, or are you just that clumsy by nature?"
ref: 2006, Hal von Luebbert, Letters to Aaron-the Hal Luebbert Story: America and Its Freedom Myths, page 258:
text: "With all due respect, sir," Shibli said, "your operation at Site Tango had all the finesse of a goat-fuck. [...] "
ref: 2009, Paul Brooks, Shibli: An Odyssey of Terror, page 95:
text: "[...] I'm square in the middle of a goatfuck here."
ref: 2011, Mary Margret Daughtridge, SEALed Bundle: SEALed Bundle: SEALed with a Kiss, SEALed with a Promise, and SEALed with a Ring:
text: Lacking that ability to just walk into this goatfuck, because that's exactly what this was. Mondy and Wanstall looked like they were at a little girl's birthday party, and wouldn't look otherwise until it truly became a goatfuck, never mind that anyone with eyes could see it coming.
ref: 2012, A. J. Scudiere, Phoenix:
text: In the midst of this goatfuck, the FedEx truck pulled up on the far side of the road and parked about three hundred yards from the main gate.
ref: 2012, Richard Marcinko, Detachment Bravo:
text: She didn't trust tender feelings as they always seemed to lead people to make unwise decisions. Exhibit A, her parents and their goatfuck of a marriage.
ref: 2013, Jenna McCormick, No Rules:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.
examples: text: What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared.
ref: 2001, Simon Hoggart, “Thatcher stars in Return of The Mummy”, in The Guardian:
text: As I got out of the cab I could see that a weapons-grade goatfuck was underway outside. There was a heaving melee of buyers, photographers, bloggers, models, slebs, men in high heels and yellow suits, editors, liggers, all pushing to get past the velvet rope.
ref: 2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:
glosses: A tightly-packed crowd of people, especially photographers, journalists and cameramen, covering a news story.
Synonyms: sense: chaotic situation
word: clusterfuck
sense: chaotic situation
word: debacle
sense: chaotic situation
word: fiasco
sense: chaotic situation
word: FUBAR
sense: chaotic situation
word: goat rope
sense: chaotic situation
word: quagmire
sense: chaotic situation
word: SNAFU
sense: chaotic situation
word: trainwreck
sense: crowd of journalists
word: scrum