hairball

IPA: hˈɛrbɔɫ

A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.
(slang, figuratively) A messy, tangled, intractable issue.

hair ball

IPA: hˈɛrbˈɔɫ

a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur)

Right now it's just a dirty hairball.
This shrinks the hairball quite a bit.
Otherwise they can become a POV advertising hairball.
The reference dump, in transition, is a hairball for now.
Angela eventually returns to work and coughs up a hairball.
It's a hairball of obnoxiousness in response to obnoxiousness.
It resembles a large hairball with eyes, a snout, arms and legs.
A hairball may enter the intestine and cause a life threatening obstruction.
Hair clumped together might be called a hairball to some, but it's art to others.
The smallest of the dogs looked more like a "hairball" than a dog when first removed from the house.
I still think IPTV is a political hairball, which is going to cause a lot of problems in the near term.
Nope, those felted pins look like some kind of hairball/eggsacks from god-knows-what kind of insect/alien.
After the vet inspected the 'hairball' he told me that it looked like a combination of stage makeup, Rogaine and Friskies Chicken Liver Dinner.
Sure, this "hairball" IT system I'm supposed to be in charge of is all someone else's fault, but that "chargeback" system, well accounting is in charge of that aren't they!

So the hair-ball talked to Jim, and Jim told it to me.
We whooped as a family at the hair-ball/message from the council.
There has to be something else in the news other than this hair-ball.
He accompanied his statement with a mental image involving a hair-ball.
Jim put the quarter under the hair-ball, and got down and listened again.
Jim got out his hair-ball and said something over it, and then he held it up and dropped it on the floor.
Jim smelt it and bit it and rubbed it, and said he would manage so the hair-ball would think it was good.