every day the director has to first deal with a smorgasbord of problems before he can begin filming
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First Known Use: 1879
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearagglomerate, agglomeration, assortment, clutter, collage, grab bag, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, litter, medley, mélange, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, motley, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, patchwork, potpourri, ragbag, rummage, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, tumble, variety, welter;
notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundries;
admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, combination, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix-up;
: a meal with many different foods that are placed on a large table so that people can serve themselves
: a large mixture of many different things
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