
1) Cluttered place 2) Cluttered room 3) Dirty, cluttered place 4) Dirty, messy place 5) Disorderly place 6) Metaphor for disorder 7) Very cluttered place 8) Very untidy place
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The interconnections of a PCB before they are assigned to appropriate layers and Routed to avoid one another. (Slang derived from a 'tangled mess'!)
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