hot mess

1) a dramatically serious/complicated situation
2) a person who has a tendency for displaying histrionics and for being involved in serious/complicated situations
3) a person, typically female, who is knowingly sexually provocative in order to get attention

The term apparently derives from a reference to recently defecated feces.

1) That argument they had the other day was more than a blow up, it was a hot mess.
2) Didn't I tell you that Paula Abdul was a hot mess before she jumped ship from American Idle?!
3) Britney Spears--she's just a straight up hot mess.

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