Browsing page 1 of words meaning a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate (29 words total)

interjection

• an exclamation of frustration.

  Oh, arse!

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  by Cyberchick, UK, Oct 24 1999  (Edit definition)

noun

• buttocks. Most uses of ass apply to arse, e.g. arsehole (asshole); dumb arse (dumb ass); etc. Origin: UK.

  Stick it up your arse!

  You can kick his arse.

  That bloke is a right arsehole.

  See more words meaning: buttocks, butt, ass

  by Wendy, Purley, Greater London, UK, Oct 22 1999  (Edit definition)

• idiot.

  She's always terrible to have around, always being an arse.

  See more words meaning: uncool person, jerk, asshole (general insults - list of)

  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004  (Edit definition)

• something incorrect, broken; MESSED UP.

  I made an arse of that.

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  by Brian B., Ireland, Oct 05 2006  (Edit definition)

verb

• to make something like ass. For example, making something "smell like ass."

  He assed up the room.

  See more words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Ratmotor, Pomona, CA, USA, Feb 26 1999  (Edit definition)

• to mess up.

  I think we assed up the acquisition.

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  by Adrienne H., Jun 12 2008  (Edit definition)

adjective

• done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; BACKWARDS. Also bass ackwards.

  Sorry, I'm back asswards today.

  Why do you have to do everything back asswards?

  He has this put together bass ackwards.

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  by Ben, Chicopee, MA, USA, Jun 30 1998  (Edit definition)

noun

• a disappointing event. Can be used in condolences.

  That was a bad beat.

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  by t8kthdog, USA, Jun 05 2002  (Edit definition)

• in poker, the loss of a good hand to a lucky hand.

  I had three of kind, but took a bad beat when the last card came and he made his inside straight.

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  by Robert B., St Louis, MO, USA, May 01 2004  (Edit definition)

noun

• an action that is likely to be harmful in a "karmic" way, that is, a harmful action that may bring about the same action on oneself.

  Gossiping about the boss can be bad juju.

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  See more words meaning: luck, energy, karma

  by Carrie S., San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 03 2000  (Edit definition)

• bad energy.

  Digger: "Oh man, this place's got some serious bad juju."
  
  -- John Doe (TV program), season 1 episode 14, Ashes to Ashes

  See more words meaning: luck, energy, karma

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 21 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• the police.

  Keep an eye out for Barney.

  That Barney busted up our party.

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  by Justin A., Fresno, CA, USA, Feb 24 1999  (Edit definition)

• a heated discussion or argument.

  Your Mam and Dad were having a real Barney last night.

  See more words meaning: to attack, to fight

  by Leigh S., Longnewton, Stockton-on-Tees, UK, Nov 14 1999  (Edit definition)

• an unusually loud or violent argument.

  He had a barney with his mate.

  See more words meaning: to attack, to fight

  by tom m., Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Feb 22 2000  (Edit definition)

• an ungainly, awkward newcomer to surfing -- unschooled in proper etiquette, apparel and technique; WANNABE. Formerly "hodad" (1960's), "nerd" (1970s) and "wally" (1980's.)

  That beach is overrun with Barneys.

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  by Chris P., CH Hill Rd, Lincoln Park, NJ 07035, USA, Mar 03 2000  (Edit definition)

• an unattractive male.

  He is such a Barney.

  See more words meaning: unattractive, ugly male

  by Anonymous, Jul 30 2007  (Edit definition)

noun - uncountable

• trouble. Origin: British. Most likely originated as a rhyming phrase: "trouble" -- "Barney Rubble" and later shortened. (Barney Rubble is a character from the Flintstones cartoon.)

  We're gonna be in deep Barney.

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  by Karl, Chicago, IL, USA, Sep 08 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• a breast.

  She got hit in the boob.

  See more words meaning: breast, breasts

  by Dustin Gibbons, London, ON, Canada, Nov 12 1997  (Edit definition)

• fool; imbecile; MORON.

  He is such a boob!

  See more words meaning: unintelligent person, idiot

  by Sarah, Mar 23 2002  (Edit definition)

• a mistake.

  I made a boob in that report. Is there still time to correct it?

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  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004  (Edit definition)

• the clasp of a necklace.

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  by bryana haas, Mar 09 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• to make a mistake.

  You boobed again? You're fired.

  See more words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err

  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004  (Edit definition)

adjective

• inappropriate.

  That was very bootsey of you man.

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  by Keith Morgan, Davis, CA, USA, Sep 16 1997  (Edit definition)

noun

• An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction.

  There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards.

  The system crashed because of a hardware bug.

  Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs. (i.e. Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).

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  See more words meaning: broken
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  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

verb - intransitive

• to joke; KID.

  Ya buggin'.

  See more words meaning: to joke, kid, or jest

  by Nelli M., Jul 27 2005  (Edit definition)

• to be extremely excited.

  I'm buggin'!

  See more words meaning: excited, energetic

  by Wendy R., Dallas, TX 75231, USA, May 10 2007  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; FREAK OUT.

  I was bugging after she got home.

  See more words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

verb - transitive

• to pester or annoy.

  Why do you keep bugging me? Go away.

  See more words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

origin

• Regarding the "unwanted and unintended property" meaning:
  
  Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing the programming language COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated "bug" in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads, "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found."
  
  This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense, and Hopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
  
  Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says, "The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus."
  
  It further notes that the term is said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus.
  
  The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term: that it came from telephone company usage, in which bugs in a telephone cable were blamed for noisy lines.
  
  Historians of the field inform us that the term was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators, these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex "bug" on the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming your way.
  
  Further, the term has long been used among radio technicians to describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists. The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark gap (roach antennae). The bug is to the radio technician what the stethoscope is to the stereotypical medical doctor. This sense is almost certainly ancestral to modern use of "bug" meaning a covert monitoring device, but may also have contributed to the use of the term for the effects of radio interference itself.
  
  Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward:
  
  "So, lie thou there. Die thou; and die our fear; For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."
  
  In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "A frightful object; a walking spectre." This is traced to "bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games. In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects.
  
  A careful discussion of the etymological issues can be found in a paper by Fred R. Shapiro, 1987, "Entomology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore", American Speech 62(4):376-378.
  
  As of late 1990, the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it. The present curator of their History of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and money constraints was not actually exhibited for years afterwards.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• A sudden, usually drastic failure.

  My computer suffered a pretty bad crash.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

verb - ambitransitive

• To fail suddenly.

  Has the system just crashed?

  Something crashed the OS!

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  See more words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

verb - intransitive

• to sleep.

  I crashed over at his house last night.

  I was so tired after work I just crashed.

  See more words meaning: to sleep

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

verb - transitive

• to arrive unexpectedly and uninvited, esp. to a social function such as a party or ceremony. Origin: perhaps derived from a vehicular accident ("crash") which is both unexpected and unwanted.

  I hate people who crash my party

  See more words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude

  by Ryan L., Washington, DC, USA, Oct 14 1998  (Edit definition)

adjective

• in a way that a dick (jerk) would do.

  That was kind of a dick way to break up with your girlfriend.

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  by Ryan N., Houston, TX, USA, Jan 09 2003  (Edit definition)

noun

• a general insult; JERK; ASSHOLE.

  That guy is a dick.

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  by Vinny V., Omaha, NE, USA, Oct 23 1998  (Edit definition)

• "anything". Always used in the negative, to mean "nothing".

  You don't know dick.

  Kat: None of that means dick if you don't face up to the real issue, Mark.
  
  -- "Incoming", Persons Unknown (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 5

  See more words meaning: nothing

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

• a penis.

  His dick is huge!

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  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

• a detective.

  See more words meaning: police officer

  by Nancy R., Madison, WI 53705, USA, Jun 15 2004  (Edit definition)

verb - transitive

• to cheat, swindle; SCREW.

  I didn't count my change. That guy dicked me!

  See more words meaning: to take advantage of, cheat, trick

  by Robert H., Kingston, PA, USA, Jun 13 2004  (Edit definition)

• to have sex with, on the giving end.

  Placid: You know that to cohabit with a woman is the dream of every normal red-blooded man.
  
  Gemma: You can't dick me or anything.
  
  -- The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, May 05 2010  (Edit definition)

adjective

• very complicated or difficult.

  This report is going to be a doozy.

  See more words meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem

  by Ronald H., Denver, CO, USA, Jan 23 2002  (Edit definition)

• something bigger than usual.

  See more words meaning: big, large

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• a bad situation.

  That's a doozy!

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  by Kevin H., Cedar Rapids, IA, USA, Nov 29 2001  (Edit definition)

adjective

• disturbing.

  That movie was fucked up.

  You're pretty fucked up!

  See more words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Jay Schirmer, Tomahawk, WI, USA, Mar 03 1998  (Edit definition)

• extremely intoxicated on alcohol or other drugs.

  He got so fucked up last night that he couldn't see.

  See more words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk
  See more words meaning: under the influence of drugs

  by Jay Schirmer, Tomahawk, WI, USA, Mar 03 1998  (Edit definition)

• weird or unusual.

  You're pretty fucked up!

  See more words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by Jay Schirmer, Tomahawk, WI, USA, Mar 03 1998  (Edit definition)

• damaged, broken, or injured.

  Sorry, the TV is fucked up.

  He got fucked up in the fight.

  See more words meaning: broken
  See more words meaning: injured, injured person

  by Jay Schirmer, Tomahawk, WI, USA, Mar 03 1998  (Edit definition)

• extremely rude or improper.

  Did you hear Ramsey dumped his girlfriend because she was getting too fat? That's pretty fucked up.

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  by Anonymous, Dec 13 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• a funny or silly person. Also goof-ball.

  See more words meaning: a joker, comic, funny person

  by Anonymous, Mississauga, ON, Canada, Nov 04 1997  (Edit definition)

• a mistake.

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

verb - intransitive

• to make a mistake.

  See more words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• in agreement.

  Are we green about this?

  Are we green?

  Green?

  A proper response to all three could be "Green."

  See more words meaning: to agree, support

  by Angel I., Hong Kong, Jun 18 1997  (Edit definition)

• uncomfortable with sexual contact. For example, afraid to kiss or touch "private areas."

  He's so damn green!

  See more words meaning: sexually inexperienced, virgin

  by Ariane, Canada, Apr 16 1998  (Edit definition)

• jealous.

  Your girlfriend is so hot. I'm green!

  See more words meaning: jealousy (related to)

  by Jedi M., Nebraska, USA, Apr 18 1998  (Edit definition)

• marijuana. (Marijuana is green in color.)

  We will smoke our green today.

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  by Jessie G., Lewisville, TX, USA, Dec 27 1999  (Edit definition)

• impolite, rude; MESSED UP.

  Dog, that's green.

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  by Amy H, Jacksonville, FL, USA, Jan 20 2000  (Edit definition)

• money. (Paper currency in the United States is green in color.)

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  by will, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Mar 02 2003  (Edit definition)

• marijuana-friendly.

  See more words meaning: to smoke marijuana

  by Morgan D., Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 30 2003  (Edit definition)

• inexperienced at a particular task or in a line of business. Origin: possibly from the color of unripe fuit.

  He's a little green, but I think he'll pick it up quickly.

  See more words meaning: inexperienced

  by Morgan D., Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 30 2003  (Edit definition)

adjective

• broken.

  The computer is hosed.

  See more words meaning: broken

  by Robert K., Newport Beach, CA, USA, Sep 18 1998  (Edit definition)

• in trouble; SCREWED.

  We are so hosed.

  The analyzer is not working -- we're hosed.

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  by Carrie S., San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 03 2000  (Edit definition)

• intoxicated to the point of incapacitation.

  He was so hosed, he couldn't see.

  See more words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk

  by Carrie S., San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 03 2000  (Edit definition)

• as in 'jack up'- to lift someone up, and, sometimes, to press that person against a supporting structure-can occur in altercations. Ex: Rob jacked Frank up against the wall, and told him to shut up.

  by Anonymous, Oct 24 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• extremely muscular.

  That guy is jacked.

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  by Jon Saltzman, Niskayuna, NY, USA, May 10 1998  (Edit definition)

• broken or ruined. Also jacked up.

  My car is completely jacked!

  I tried to get online, but my computer was all jacked.

  See more words meaning: broken

  by dean m., San Francisco, CA, USA, May 08 1999  (Edit definition)

• to be high on ecstasy or other stimulant drugs.

  I was so jacked last night

  See more words meaning: under the influence of stimulants (e.g. methamphetamines, caffeine)

  by Dale M., Toronto, ON, Canada, Mar 31 2002  (Edit definition)

• excited.

  I am so jacked we are going to this concert.

  See more words meaning: excited, energetic

  by JOHN A., May 28 2004  (Edit definition)

• improper.

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 03 2009  (Edit definition)

notes

• "Jacked" is also the past tense of jack.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jan 02 2003  (Edit definition)

adjective

• injured.

  He got into a fight and got all jacked up.

  See more words meaning: injured, injured person

  by Karl Bartolome, Oct 27 1997  (Edit definition)

• broken or ruined.

  His car is all jacked up.

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  by Karl Bartolome, Oct 27 1997  (Edit definition)

• displeasing, rude, not proper, etc.

  What you did to her was jacked up.

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  by Karl Bartolome, Oct 27 1997  (Edit definition)

• abnormal, when describing a person.

  That person is all jacked up.

  See more words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange

  by steven, Atlanta, GA, USA, Feb 11 2002  (Edit definition)

• in a generally poor condition.

  He must have had fifteen beers. He's all jacked up!

  See more words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing
  See more words meaning: sick, ill

  by Starr, C., May 24 2006  (Edit definition)

• under the influence of stimulants.

  She's jacked up on amphetamines.

  See more words meaning: under the influence of stimulants (e.g. methamphetamines, caffeine)

  by Kimi R., Los Angeles, CA, USA, Apr 04 2009  (Edit definition)