a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
tv. to confuse or perplex someone. : That kind of discussion discombobulates me something awful.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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discombobulated definition
[dɪskəmˈbɑbjəledəd] and [dɪskəmˈbubjəledəd]
and discomboobulated
mod. confused. : I get completely discombobulated when I think of figures that big.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. : From the way she is walking, I'd say she is discombobulated.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The really bad ones always leave me discombobulated.
He was discombobulated.
That seemingly innocuous question has totally discombobulated you and forced you to re-examine what it is you are doing and why.
But the zigzags left the markets discombobulated and uncertain.
The studio's executives seem a bit discombobulated by all the fuss.
But I'm a bit discombobulated by the latest development.