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Definition of 3-ring circus
3-ring circus 
noun
- a chaotic event.
- See more words with the same meaning: a mess.
Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'a mess': | |
| Definitions include: US Army phonetics for "CF", an acronym of cluster fuck. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "God awful mess". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: something extremely disorganized. | |
| Definitions include: to use one or more kludges (as described in the noun sense) to solve a problem. | |
| Definitions include: confused, ruined; "messed up". | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: a police officer. | |
| Definitions include: of superior quality, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: messy, trashy, or dilapidated. | |
| Definitions include: to look disorderly, undesirable. | |
| Definitions include: to end an intimate relationship with someone. | |
| Definitions include: the noun senses of "crap" are mostly a subset of the uses of "shit." | |
| Definitions include: a drunken event/night of epic proportions. | |
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Other terms relating to 'circus': | |
| Definitions include: something resembling a circus, especially loud and disorderly. | |
| Definitions include: An activity that would embarass a normal person. An example is individuals responsible for cleaning toilet lines or other hazardous or repugnant activities. Flying circus has many meanings for all kinds of odd activities, like harvesting other people's hair for example. It can also refer to corruption. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: something chaotic and disorderly. | |
Other terms relating to 'ring': | |
| Definitions include: a ring worn around the base of the penis to maintain or enhance an erection. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: to telephone. | |
| Definitions include: to sound familiar. | |
| Definitions include: to welcome. | |
| Definitions include: the person in charge. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer head trauma. | |
| Definitions include: a burning sensation of the anus during and after defecating digested spicy food. | |
| Definitions include: something chaotic and disorderly. | |
| Definitions include: to enter a competition. | |
Other terms relating to 'three': | |
| Definitions include: the ability to think outside the box. | |
| Definitions include: a man with an extremely large penis. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: an unspecified small number. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: be something really big and bad. | |
| Definitions include: to split something (often a purchase) three ways. | |
| Definitions include: to focus on beer, "bud" (marijuana), and "bitches" (women.) | |
| Definitions include: the pressing of the "Alt" key + the "Ctrl" key + the "Del" key to reboot or unfreeze a PC computer. | |
| Definitions include: a premature ejaculator. | |
| Definitions include: something chaotic and disorderly. | |
| Definitions include: reading, writing, and arithmetic. | |
| Definitions include: very drunk. | |
| Definitions include: a threesome, i.e. sex between three people. | |
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