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goatfuck

goatfuck noun: a chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.

Noun

goatfuck (plural goatfucks)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.
    • "What a goatfuck," I said.1971, Tom Mayer, The Weary Falcon
    • "Well, sir—frankly, Admiral, everything up to now has been a real goatfuck, so far as SpecWar's been concerned. [...]"1992, Richard Marcinko, Rogue warrior
  2. (slang) A tightly-packed crowd of people, especially photographers, journalists and cameramen, covering a news story.
    • What Americans call a goat-fuck, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared.2001, Simon Hoggart, “Thatcher stars in Return of The Mummy”, in The Guardian
    • 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.2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor
    Synonyms:
    scrum

Examples of goatfuck in a sentence

  • Along with the three at that colossal goatfuck a few days before that.2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men:
  • "[...] Do you guys rehearse these goatfucks, or are you just that clumsy by nature?"2006, Hal von Luebbert, Letters to Aaron-the Hal Luebbert Story: America and Its Freedom Myths, page 258:
  • "[...] I'm square in the middle of a goatfuck here."2011, Mary Margret Daughtridge, SEALed Bundle: SEALed Bundle: SEALed with a Kiss, SEALed with a Promise, and SEALed with a Ring:
  • Lacking that ability to just walk into this goatfuck, because that's exactly what this was.2012, A. J. Scudiere, Phoenix:

Synonyms of goatfuck

Forms of goatfuck

pluralgoatfucks
alternative formgoat fuck
alternative formgoat-fuck

Origin of goatfuck

From goat + fuck, possibly as a blend of goat rope and clusterfuck.

Questions about goatfuck

What does goatfuck mean?
Goatfuck means a chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.
How do you use goatfuck in a sentence?
Along with the three at that colossal goatfuck a few days before that.
What part of speech is goatfuck?
Goatfuck is a noun.
What is the plural of goatfuck?
The plural of goatfuck is goatfucks.

Words near goatfuck in the dictionary

  1. Goates
  2. Goateses
  3. goatfish
  4. goatfishes
  5. goatflesh
  6. goatfuck
  7. goatfucker
  8. goatfuckers
  9. goatfucks
  10. goatgrass
  11. goatgrasses

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