dumpster fire

noun

variants or less commonly Dumpster fire

US, informal

: an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or occurrence : disaster

Reese and McAdoo take the fall for what has been a dumpster fire of a season, one which has them at 2-10 on the season, and in line for one of the top two picks in the 2018 NFL Draft.

—James Kratch

So while 2017 has been, by many measures, a complete dumpster fire of a year, New Yorkers can at the very least take refuge in the fact that their city is becoming an even safer place to live.

—Clayton Guse

Examples of dumpster fire in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Firefighters responded to the dumpster fire and extinguished it, and police tracked down Thornburg as the suspect based on a video that captured his Jeep Grand Cherokee in the area at the time of the dumpster fire, the release states. —Nicole Acosta, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024

November, November, November…It’s been somewhat of a dumpster fire. —Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Nov. 2024

But that was for a Giants offense that was an absolute dumpster fire playing behind arguably the worst offensive line in the NFL. —Gary Davenport, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024

His Cowboys, meanwhile, are Big D’s biggest dumpster fire. —Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2006, in the meaning defined above