skeewampus
n.— «This is where it all goes a bit skeewampus (technical term meaning FUBAR).» —“Security Versus Civil Liberties Debate Bubbles to Surface Again, With No Solution in Sight” by Mike Baker Fox News Mar. 28, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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