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shambolic

(adj): (British slang) disorderly or chaotic
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4 months ago yarb said:

I had no idea this was specifically British, damnit! Increasingly I'm understanding how little I'm understood.

4 months ago John said:

"His manner is not stilted but what the English sometimes call 'shambolic'--chaotic or disorganized--even when he is riding the bicycle that he often uses to get around London."

The New Yorker, Capital Fellows, April 4, 2008, pg. 26.

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