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Definition of go pear-shaped
go pear-shaped 
verb - intransitive
- to deteriorate.
Citation from "Bankers still don't get it on bonuses", Gapper Blog at The Financial Times, Tony Tassell, February 24 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to be bad, poor, to suck.
Last edited on Feb 25 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 02 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to be bad, poor, to suck': | |
| Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: alternative spelling of "sucks". | |
| Definitions include: See suck. | |
| Definitions include: to be inadequate or displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: to be inadequate or displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: to clean. | |
| Definitions include: to be inadequate, displeasing, or of poor quality. | |
| Definitions include: to be bad. | |
| Definitions include: to be very bad. | |
| Definitions include: very poor. | |
| Definitions include: to majorly suck. | |
| Definitions include: to suck greatly, i.e. to be very bad. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
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Other terms relating to 'go': | |
| Definitions include: completely ready. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot". | |
| Definitions include: used to tell someone to stop messing with people. | |
| Definitions include: excited and ready to start. | |
| Definitions include: From the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "got to go". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "goes away from keyboard". | |
| Definitions include: "goes in to". | |
| Definitions include: the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: to get a person excited. | |
| Definitions include: to move one's legs. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good game." | |
| Definitions include: to say. | |
Other terms relating to 'pear': | |
| Definitions include: London Cockney rhyming slang for stairs | |
| Definitions include: confused, problematic, troublesome. | |
Other terms relating to 'shap': | |
| Definitions include: K cool. You normally say it to make the person feel awkward and what they said wasn't "cool". | |
| Definitions include: confused, problematic, troublesome. | |
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