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bollocks up

bollocks up verb: to fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.

Verb

bollocks up (third-person singular simple present bollockses up, present participle bollocksing up, simple past and past participle bollocksed up)

  1. (Australia, Commonwealth, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
    • The webpage didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting.

Forms of bollocks up

third-person singular presentbollockses up
present participlebollocksing up
past participlebollocksed up
pastbollocksed up

Questions about bollocks up

What does bollocks up mean?
Bollocks up means to fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
What part of speech is bollocks up?
Bollocks up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bollocks up?
The past tense of bollocks up is bollocksed up.

Words near bollocks up in the dictionary

  1. bollocking
  2. bollockings
  3. bollocks
  4. bollocks more like
  5. bollocks to it
  6. bollocks up
  7. bollocksed
  8. bollocksed up
  9. bollockses
  10. bollockses up
  11. bollocksing

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