0 someone or something with a very untidy appearance, or that is not well-organized:
It's a hot mess, and likely the precursor to a postseason purge that seems more inevitable by the day.
Dare to stop reading and start writing, and revel in an early draft that is an unabashed hot mess.
The military spouse blogs are compelling reading because they're a hot mess, which is precisely their charm.
There are very few writers who are able to avoid the "hot mess" part of it and many who languish in this.
And now it's under the sun swelling into a hot mess of bacteria.
It's still a hot mess.
But that hot mess she inherited?
It's unclear which of the older meanings of hot and mess someone was drawing on when first using hot mess to sum up a dysfunctional but perhaps still appealing person.