Definition of a muck up

muck up

noun

• a mistake. Hyphenated.
  • See more words with the same meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate.

  Last edited on Dec 04 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

verb - transitive

• to ruin; "mess up".
  • See more words with the same meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err.

  Last edited on Dec 25 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate':
my bad	Definitions include: an apology.
f*ckward	Definitions include: Fuckward.
jacked	Definitions include: extremely muscular.
pull a Clarence Thomas	Definitions include: to make a sexually inappropriate gesture or statement.
JANFU	Definitions include: acronym for "Joint Army [and] Navy fuck-up", i.e. a large mistake caused by both the Army and the Navy.
snafu	Definitions include: Acronym for "situation normal, all fucked up."
hosed	Definitions include: broken.
twisted	Definitions include: sadistic; "messed up".
no-no	Definitions include: something that shouldn't be done.
Joe	Definitions include: coffee.
jacked up	Definitions include: injured.
handsy	Definitions include: prone to inappropriate touching with one's hands.
tight	Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool"; "awesome".
boo boo	Definitions include: a mistake.
f*cked up	Definitions include: disturbing.
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Other terms relating to 'to make a mistake, be incorrect, err':
play	Definitions include: sexual activity.
choke	Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
look like a monkey f*cking a football	Definitions include: to perform terribly.
goof	Definitions include: a funny or silly person. Also goof-ball.
boner	Definitions include: an erection.
blow	Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
score an own goal	Definitions include: See own goal.
shoot (one's self) in the foot	Definitions include: to make a mistake that limits or prevents progress on a task, or reduces the task's level of success.
eagle trip	Definitions include: to not like something you like.
f*ck up	Definitions include: to severely injure (a person) or damage or ruin (a thing.)
flub	Definitions include: to make a mistake.
d'oh	Definitions include: exclamation to denote general sorrow, despair, or disappointment.
bollocks	Definitions include: "Bollocks" is also the present tense and plural form of bollock.
botch up	Definitions include: to mess up.
get it twisted	Definitions include: to be mistaken.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'muck':
muck about	Definitions include: to waste time.
muck around	Definitions include: to waste time.
muckety-muck	Definitions include: an important person.
mucking fess	Definitions include: fucking mess
muck, mucked up	Definitions include: muck = fuck mucked up = fucked up
Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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