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noun
A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
is a specific kind of: bedlam, chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness.
domain region: Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR.
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