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[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 17, 2012, at 6:46 AM, David Barnhart wrote:

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> From Chapman's revision of Wentworth and Flexner
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> goat fuck (or screw or rope) n.phr. Army A very confused situation,
> operation, etc. =Chinese fire drill. (c. 1986?)

Sheidlower's _The F Word_ (3rd ed.) has:

goat fuck   noun
Especially Military, a fiasco; mess; clusterfuck. AVlso (euphemistically) goat dance, goat screw, goat rope.

[cites from 1965 (Hunter S. Thompson) on]

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