2N-COUNT [with supplement, usually NOUNof n]乱糟糟的一团(思想、事件) If you refer to a thicket of ideas or events, you mean that there a lot of them together, and often that they are confusing or difficult to identify. 乱糟糟的一团(思想、事件)
The novel is a thicket of literary references.
这本小说纯粹是由一堆文学参考书胡乱拼凑而成。
To try to open a foreign-owned business is to enter a thicket of regulations from which few emerge.