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- Dictionaryshambles/ˈʃamblz/
plural
- 1. a state of total disorder: informal "my career was in a shambles" Similar
- 2. a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names): "the shambles where the animals were slaughtered"
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a place or situation that is in a state of confusion or disorder: The morning after the party, the house was a complete shambles.
1. archaic : a meat market. 2. : slaughterhouse. 3. a. : a place of mass slaughter or bloodshed. the battlefield became a shambles. b. : a scene or a state of great destruction : wreckage. the city was a shambles after the bombing. c (1) : a scene or a state of great disorder or confusion. an economy in shambles. (2) : great confusion : mess.
If a place, event, or situation is a shambles or is in a shambles, everything is in disorder. The ship's interior was an utter shambles. The economy is in a shambles.
a place of great disorder. the room was a shambles after the party. a place where animals are brought to be slaughtered. any place of slaughter or carnage. dialect. a row of covered stalls or shops where goods, originally meat, are sold.
1. a place of great disorder: the room was a shambles after the party. 2. (Agriculture) a place where animals are brought to be slaughtered. 3. any place of slaughter or carnage. 4. (Commerce) dialect Brit a row of covered stalls or shops where goods, originally meat, are sold.
noun. /ˈʃæmblz/ [singular] (informal) a situation in which there is a great lack of order or understanding synonym mess. The press conference was a complete shambles. What a shambles! He’s made an absolute shambles of his career. in a shambles The government is in a shambles over Europe. Extra Examples. Join us.
People say things are "in shambles" or "a shambles" — they mean the same thing. However you say it, a shambles is chaotic, disorderly, out of hand, and off the hook — a major, five-alarm mess. Definitions of shambles
