spaghetti bowl n. a mass of complicated relationships within a group, system, or process; an intersection or interchange of many lines, pipes, roads, or railways. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Spaghetti bowl: teerm commonly used by programmers and technical writers in 80’s referring to untidy and unnecessarily complex code