Meaning of cock up | Babel Free

Definitions

To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar

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Examples

“It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.”

“I'd take the stick to his back and beat him while I could stand over him—as I done many a time before. The mother, you know, she cocks him up with this and that. . . .”

CEFR level