A chaotic situation where some effort has gone thoroughly wrong; a fiasco or clusterfuck.
A tightly-packed crowd of people, especially photographers, journalists and cameramen, covering a news story.
A catastrophic failure; a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.
The inrush of air in forming a suction stop.
Violent compression.
The action of imploding.
The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.