fuck up

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsbotchbodgebumblefumblebotch upmuffblowflubscrew upball upspoilmuck upbunglefluff

   Broaderfail

Questions about fuck up

What does fuck up mean?

fuck up means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin".

What is another word for fuck up?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fuck up a common word?

fuck up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.