Charlie Foxtrot en · NOUN
Etymology
From clusterfuck, abbreviated as CF and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Meanings
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(slang) Clusterfuck.
Charlie Foxtrot! Tower One approach has active Triple-A!
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Hocus (Debra Wilson Skelton), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant:That commission's project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who's in charge over there?
[…]he quotes Tim Dugan, a civilian interrogator at Abu Ghraib, as saying: “It was Charlie Foxtrot without a doubt without a doubt^([sic]). I’ve never seen anything like that, and I never thought that I would see American soldiers so depressed, and morale so low.”
2008 May 14, Michiko Kakutani, “How Abu Ghraib Became the Anything-Goes Prison”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie Foxtrots | Number=Plur | lexicographic |