clusterfuckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From cluster +‎ fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/

名詞

clusterfuck (plural clusterfucks)

1. (slang, vulgar, idiomatic) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence.
   • 1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187:

     [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.

   • 1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell

     "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.

   • 1990, Stephen King, Dark Half‎, →ISBN, page 151:

     They had a name for something like this in the army—a cluster fuck. Yes. Good name. ... He was sitting here in the middle of a great big cluster fuck

   • 1994, James O'Barr, Alex Proyas, The Crow:

     A simple sweep-and-clear turned into a total clusterfuck: T-Bird, trying to explain to Eric how the situation escalated on Devil's Night […]

   • 1995, John Barnes, Mother of Storms:

     Please note also my request that henceforth I wish to be reminded of the possibility of a clusterfuck in any contingency plan or operations proposal […]

   • 2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87:

     My cousin was in the Army over here in '68. He says don't trust anybody to know what they're doing, calls it a cluster-fuck. Fucked-up-beyond-all-repair, FUBAR he says.

   • 2004, Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction:

     […] and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.

   • 2005, Charles W. Sasser, Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II:

     It was a clusterfuck, a deadly clusterfuck. When the doughs finally got off the ground in some numbers and charged into the woods, the Krauts broke contact […]

   • 2008, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, IMDB tt0887883

     [CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck.

   • 2013: Barbara Kruger: What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement in response to the Supreme v Married To The Mob battle
2. (slang, vulgar, sexuality, uncommon) A sexual orgy.

同意語

派生語

動詞

clusterfuck (third-person singular simple present clusterfucks, present participle clusterfucking, simple past and past participle clusterfucked)

1. (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, transitive) To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.

   Synonyms: CF (initialism), cluster, clusterball, fustercluck

参考

アナグラム

• fustercluck

アナグラム

• fustercluck