The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower Page A

“I’m gonna have you shot.”…“You baldheaded so-and-so, go ahead and shoot.” 2002 R. B. Parker
Widow’s Walk
xxxii. 163: “Nathan Smith was a serious chickenfucker.”…“He was drawn to young boys?” “Early adolescent when he could get them.”
    clusterfuck
noun
1 . an orgy.
1965
East Village Other
(Oct.) 2/3: As soon as they legalize “pornies” I’ll be the first producer to hit the neighborhood theatres with my now in progress epic film entitled “Mongolian Cluster Fuck!” 1967–68 N. von Hoffman
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
182: Oh, those big cluster fucks! I can’t stand them. 1968 “A. D’Arcangelo”
Homosexual Handbook
115: You may see many of the people at your “do” only at other “cluster fucks,” having nothing in common with them but a taste for orgies. 1969 G. D. Bartell
Group Sex
134: One advantage of open versus closed swinging, according to most of our informants, is the possiblity of “three-on-one” or “gang bang” (sometimes called “clusterfuck”) activity. 1972 R.A. Wilson
Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words
69:
Cluster Fuck
—Two men copulating simultaneously with the same woman. 1975 G. Legman
No Laughing Matter
754: The cheap hippie “group-grope” and “cluster-fuck.” 1977
National Lampoon
(Aug.) 50: Well, they’re usually pretty wrapped up in a cluster-fuck with the photo models. 1986 J. Ellroy
Suicide Hill
699: I’m startin’ to feel like the bottom man in a Mongolian cluster fuck. 2001 J. Ellroy
Cold Six Thousand
xxi. 115: Pete saw cartoons and FBI text. Hate and smut—a coon named Bayard Rustin—a queer cluster-fuck.
2 .
Military
. a bungled or confused undertaking or situation; mess; (
also
) a disorganized group of individuals.
1969 in B. E. Holley
Vietnam
(1993) 143: These are the screwups that the American public rarely hears about. They happen often enough over here that we have a term for them—“cluster-fuck”! 1974 New York City man, age 27: A clusterfuck was a big expression in [the N.Y. National Guard] in 1969. It meant any time people were standing around outside of a regular formation. They’d say, “What the hell is this clusterfuck?” “Break up this clusterfuck.” 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio
13th Valley
42: This place looks like a giant clusterfuck.
Ibid
. 137: We gonna get this clusterfuck up in the air? 1983 K. Miller
Lurp Dog
222 [refers to Vietnam War]: Shame to piss up a clusterfuck target like this. 1985 D. Dye
Run Between the Raindrops
42: The rest is up for grabs. This place is a cluster-fuck. 1986 J. Thacker
Finally the Pawn
135 [refers to 1970]: What you’re going to have is an A number one clusterfuck. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos
Heartbreak Ridge
146: “What’s your assessment of this alert?”…“It’s a clusterfuck!…marines should be fighting, not…filling out request forms for equipment they should already have, Sir.” 1988 P. J. O’Rourke
Holidays in Hell
218: “Mongolian Cluster Fuck” is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event. 1991 D. Simon
Homicide
82: Allowing a herd of new recruits to graze through a crime scene had all the makings of what detectives and military men like to call a clusterfuck. 1999 C. Brookmyre
One Fine Day in Middle of Night
136: This whole op is from page one of the cluster-fuck recipe book. 2006
New York Magazine
(Apr. 17) 36/1: Says one bitter paparazzo: “The whole thing was a giant cluster-fuck, a total waste of time.”
3 . Originally
Military
. a bungler; idiot.
a
1987 C. Bunch & A. Cole
Reckoning for Kings
284 [refers to Vietnam War]: He’s a clusterfuck. 2006 A. Davies
Goodbye Lemon
ii. 115: That clusterfuck Musser gets sixty grand a year up and down a goddamn telephone pole. He didn’t get that job because he’s a supergenius either.
    cluster-fuck
verb
1 . to participate in an orgy; (also) to gang-bang.
1971 J. F. Hunter
Gay Insider
vii. 134: In the bird sanctuary…you can cluster-fuck