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goatfuck

goatfuck

English

Alternative forms

  • goat ****, goat-****

Noun

goatfuck (plural goatfucks)

  1. (slang, chiefly military, vulgar) A chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.
    • 1971, Tom Mayer, The Weary Falcon:
      "What a goatfuck," I said.
    • 1992, Richard Marcinko, Rogue warrior:
      "Well, sir—frankly, Admiral, everything up to now has been a real goatfuck, so far as SpecWar's been concerned. [...]"
    • 1992, William S. Burroughs, Esquire, volume 117, page 88:
      [...] 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 ****"—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 ****, [...]
    • 2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men:
      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?
    • 2006, Hal von Luebbert, Letters to Aaron-the Hal Luebbert Story: America and Its Freedom Myths, page 258:
      "[...] Do you guys rehearse these goatfucks, or are you just that clumsy by nature?"
    • 2009, Paul Brooks, Shibli: An Odyssey of Terror, page 95:
      "With all due respect, sir," Shibli said, "your operation at Site Tango had all the finesse of a goat-****. [...] "
    • 2011, Mary Margret Daughtridge, SEALed Bundle: SEALed Bundle: SEALed with a Kiss, SEALed with a Promise, and SEALed with a Ring:
      "[...] I'm square in the middle of a goatfuck here."
    • 2012, A. J. Scudiere, Phoenix:
      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.
    • 2012, Richard Marcinko, Detachment Bravo:
      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.
    • 2013, Jenna McCormick, No Rules:
      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.
  2. (slang) A tightly-packed crowd of people, especially photographers, journalists and cameramen, covering a news story.
    • 2001, Simon Hoggart, "Thatcher stars in Return of The Mummy", The Guardian:
      What Americans call a goat-****, an unstable, tottering, towering pile of photographers and TV crews, had appeared.
    • 2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:
      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.

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