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What (who) is SHAMBLES - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shambles (disambiguation)
shambles
Something incomprehensible or in severe disarray. {No idea why we do it, but sometimes a real word, with nothing new in its description or example, will be added to the pseudodictionary.)
After that kegger on Friday night, my place was a shambles.
After that kegger on Friday night, my place was a shambles.
shambles
n. pl.
1.
Flesh market, meat market.
2.
Slaughter-house, abattoir.
shambles
¦ plural noun [treated as sing.]
1. informal a chaotic state.
2. archaic a butcher's slaughterhouse.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'meat market'): plural of earlier shamble 'stool, stall', of W. Gmc origin, from L. scamellum, dimin. of scamnum 'bench'.
Wikipedia
Shambles
Shambles is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market.
Shambles or The Shambles may also refer to:
- The Shambles, a historic street in York, England
- Shambles Square, Manchester, England
- Shambles Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
- The Shambles (band), an American power pop and rock band
- Shambles (film) (French: Maudite poutine), 2016 Canadian film directed by Karl Lemieux
- The Shambles, a street in the lower part of Totnes, Devon (England)
- The Shambles, a dangerous sandbank off Portland Bill, Dorset (England)
Examples of use of SHAMBLES
1. Clearly the whole thing is going to be a dreadful shambles, but the government‘s attempts to prove that it won‘t be a shambles are themselves already a shambles.
2. It is a shambles." This ‘shambles‘ is the legal system that will decide whether or not Bob Woolmer was murdered.
3. Immigration shambles The move is likely to be seen as an attempt to depoliticise the immigration shambles.
4. Yet Conservatives tell me that the interviews were a shambles.
5. Ministerial incompetence brought us the shambles of tax credit overpayments.