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mess-up

 
Noun mess-up has 1 sense
  1. ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled
    --1 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
    Derived form: verb mess up1
Verb mess-up has 3 senses
  1. botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    --1 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
    Derived form: noun mess-up1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  2. ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
    --2 is one way to disarrange
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. mess, mess up - make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
    --3 is one way to disorder, disarray
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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