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.

Synonyms

• (chaotic situation): clusterfuck, debacle, fiasco, FUBAR, goat rope, quagmire, SNAFU, trainwreck
• (crowd of journalists): scrum