noun, British colloquial: a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgement results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
This word is regularly used by the British Press (and even in Parliament) to describe actual political disasters, however it was first used in 2009 in the BBC TV series 'The Thick of It', a political satire. It adds the Latin prefix omni-, (meaning "all") to the word shambles, a term for a situation of total disorder.
The term was coined by writer Tony Roche. Well done, mate!
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