shemozzle
IPA: ʃɪmˈoʊzʌɫ
noun
- (slang) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (slang) A quarrel or rumpus.
verb
- (slang) To scarper; to run away; to flee.
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Examples of "shemozzle" in Sentences
- Like any fan he has watched with dismay the ongoing boardroom shemozzle.
- Some kind of player plus cash shemozzle involving Ji-Sung Park could be in the offing.
- Bataille was a man who, in his novel Story of the Eye, had imagined scenes with bull testicles, pissing, the whole shemozzle.
- But which in the current climate instead looks like a rather tedious formality backed up by a managerial-form-wobble-Ray-Wilkins-ousting shemozzle.
- Mr Mulder said that because the system was such a "shemozzle", Kamco had no hope of detecting everyone who had been either ripped off or had benefited from the glitches.
- The shemozzle in the centre looked very messy, but with the alternate move system with the routs done in the other side's turn it just sorted itself out remarkably well.
- This effort produced what can only be described as a "shemozzle": horses, waggons, and men piled themselves up in a hopeless tangle at the bottom of the wadi, and the night operations came to an abrupt end.
- Lager has already stained his path, a thirst that is a matter of public record: during the nightclub shemozzle that reached the courts last year it emerged that Carroll had drunk "eight or nine pints of lager" at the time of the incident.
- Even in these distant days of London 2012 it is starting to sound like just another sporting industry that doesn't know when to stop talking – as witnessed by this week's stage-managed shemozzle over which sporting celebrity will get to light the Olympic flame in Stratford.
- As such there is a banality now to his presence with England, a quality that remains undimmed by choruses of player support and even by the resurfacing of the captaincy shemozzle – a wrestle for the armband that has been compared to a group of bald men fighting over a comb, although this does seem a little unfair on combs, which are useful things.
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