Hodge-podge is a word used to describe a confused or disorderly mass or collection of things; a "mess" or a "jumble".

The ground where the main body was drawn up was narrow and unfavorable, and the first assault on the Americans was repulsed, the Germans falling back in a disorderly mass.

Contrary to orders, Harold's left wing streamed down the hill in a disorderly mass, and was promptly routed.

The city was the drab colour of dried mud and it spread as far as the eye could see, a disorderly mass of rectilinear structures thrust together, cheek by jowl, with no breathing space provided.

They stood in a disorderly mass with their baggage.

The Sultan's army was drawing near, a confused and disorderly mass of human beings moving on from the plain.

Within the disorderly mass were brutal skirmishes, as militia agents swung spiked truncheons and whips coated with man o' war stings.

Hence the disorderly mass of introductions, reintroductions, reiterations and reconsiderations in these volumes as Mr. Unger scrambles to contain the new contingencies generated by each successive stage of his project.

A few minutes later the disorderly mass touched down, bending a handlebar of one bike that got pinched but with no other damage.

The Tassu ground forces grumbled back in a vast, disorderly mass, to take what rest and refreshment they could.