Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A confused, muddled, or messed-up condition or state; a ridiculously chaotic situation; confusion or chaos regarded as the normal state. · A major glitch or breakdown; a mistake or blunder.
Acronym of situation normal, all fucked up /situation normal, all fouled up.
The term was born during the Second World War as an acronym of the initials of the words situation normal, all fucked up, which summed up the chaos and confusion of the war from an individual soldier’s point of view.
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