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Definition of going pear-shaped

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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.

Slang terms with the same root words

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 for "go fuck yourself".
Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself."
Definitions include: acronym for "good game."

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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