goatfuck

English

Alternative forms

• goat fuck, goat-fuck

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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 fuck"—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 fuck, [...]

   • 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-fuck. [...] "

   • 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”, in The Guardian:

     What Americans call a goat-fuck, 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