Meaning of muck up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To ruin unintentionally.
   informal, intransitive, transitive
2. To clown around; to have fun, often at the expense of others.
   Australia, informal, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“The terrorists have⟳ really mucked up our holiday plans.”

“That’s why they’re called the Founders? Yes, because it will be their job to repair⟳ a world that millennials have⟳ mucked up beyond repair⟳.”

““Looking at our season so far, we have⟳ to be honest and admit⟳ that we mucked it up ourselves,” Özil told the German website spox.com. “We did not play⟳ to our potential in the games against the so-called smaller teams. You immediately get⟳ punished for that in the Premier League.”

“He said that this was simply a “historical fact” and that he could “see⟳ no reason⟳ why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century”.”

“It's the last⟳ day of school and everyone is mucking up.”

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