" In order to convey their disgust with UNC’s decisionmakers, they discussed the creation of clusters of the virus and the chaos inherent in the situation by including the word “clusterfuck” in the headline of their August 16 editorial on the print version of the paper. "From the 3rd paragraph of this article at the Nonprofit Quarterly.
上記の文で、clusterfuckの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "clusterfuck" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
名詞形
〈卑俗〉とんでもない大失敗、とんでもなくめちゃくちゃな事柄［状態］◆非常に下品な表現。一説に、もともとは米軍で使われた俗語。
他動詞形
〈卑俗〉～をとんでもなくめちゃくちゃな状態にする◆非常に下品な表現。一説に、もともとは米軍で使われた俗語。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:vulgar slang
: a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation : a muddled mess
Etymology/語源
Merriam-Websterによると、初めて使用されたのは、1969年。
According to Merriam-Webster:
First Known Use of clusterfuck:
1969
Examples
- Zap is funny. Zap has the hots for your mother, who, even if she weren't too wrapped up in the tragic clusterfuck of her own life to notice, would probably be out of his league anyway. — Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes, 2005
- As Luke tuned up, I watched as tourists snapped photos, panhandlers hassled the tourists, and junkies and drunks mixed it up like trained bears in a Russian circus during an earthquake. I realized that soon mine would be the loudest voice in this clusterfuck and that all these people would be staring at me. — Robert Wilder, Tales from the Teachers' Lounge, 2007
- This is an organizational clusterfuck.
- By the time the artillery came in the enemy was already on top of us. It was a total clusterfuck.
- Axios notes that the comments made by the president during Tuesday night’s /clusterfuck/ debate were condemned by Democrats, and Republicans asked the president to clarify his statements because they need further proof before they can call him a racist race-baiting racist.
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