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fuck-up

fuck-up {n.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable}

A mess; a badly botched situation.

What a fuck-up the dissolution of the USSR created!

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[fuck off] {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} 1. Go away! * /Can't you see you're bothering me? Fuck off!/ 2. To be lazy. * /John said "I don't feel like working, […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

[fuck around] {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} 1. To be promiscuous. * /John fucks around with the secretaries./ 2. To play at something without purpose, to mess around. * /He doesn't […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

[fuck up] {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To make a mess of something or oneself. * /Because he was totally unprepared, he fucked up his exam./ * /He is so fucked […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

[monkey around] See: [FUCK AROUND], [HORSE AROUND], [MESS AROUND]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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