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Pronunciation / Transliteration: luànjú
"整个会议变成了一个彻头彻尾的乱局。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A situation, event, or environment characterized by a chaotic, mismanaged, and highly visible failure.
"The company's product launch turned into an absolute shitshow when the website crashed and executives argued on live television." - 2
A messy, disorganized state of affairs.
"Trying to organize the travel itinerary for twenty people without a planner was a complete shitshow."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in American English around the late 1960s or early 1970s, likely originating within military slang to describe a disastrously botched operation or chaotic situation. It is a compound combining the vulgar noun 'shit' and the noun 'show', evolving to broadly denote any public event or situation characterized by complete chaos, mismanagement, and failure.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Shitshow" is said worldwide
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cauchemar
Transliteration: kohsh-mahr
"La réunion s'est transformée en un véritable cauchemar."
Desaster
Transliteration: deh-zas-tair
"Die Veranstaltung war ein völliges Desaster."
disastro
Transliteration: dee-zah-stroh
"La conferenza stampa è stata un disastro totale."
desmadre
Transliteration: dezs-mah-dreh
"La fiesta terminó siendo un desmadre total."
bagunça
Transliteration: buh-goon-sah
"A organização da conferência foi uma verdadeira bagunça."
त तबाही
Transliteration: tabahi
Script: तबाही
"परियोजना की शुरुआत एक पूरी तबाही थी।"
乱局
Transliteration: luànjú
"整个会议变成了一个彻头彻尾的乱局。"
개판
Transliteration: gae-pan
"그 프로젝트의 시작은 완전히 개판이었다."
大混乱
Transliteration: dai-konran
"そのイベントの運営は大混乱だった。"
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