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n. - (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair.

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  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 'No end of a shemozzle there's been there lately,' he said.
  • Like any fan he has watched with dismay the ongoing boardroom shemozzle.
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