- ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled
--1 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
Derived form: verb mess up1
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun mess-up1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- 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
- 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