shambles
/ˈʃæm·bəlz/ n [U]Definition
› a place or situation that is in a state of confusion or disorder: The morning after the party, the house was a complete shambles. The strike-shortened basketball season was a shambles. › Shambles is also a messy or confused state: The candidate claimed that the economy was in (a) shambles.
(Definition of shambles n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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