goat-rodeo MORE

[Victor Steinbok]

So "rodeo" is a euphemism for "fuck"? Wouldn't be the first time... ["It
ain't my first rodeo!"]

     VS-)

On 2/17/2012 10:10 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 6:46 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
>
>>  From Chapman's revision of Wentworth and Flexner
>>
>>
>> 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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