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buggers up

buggers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bugger up.

Meaning of bugger up

Verb

bugger up (third-person singular simple present buggers up, present participle buggering up, simple past and past participle buggered up)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
    • I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
    Synonyms:
    booger up
  2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, informal) To injure or harm (someone).

Questions about buggers up

What is buggers up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Buggers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bugger up.

Words near buggers up in the dictionary

  1. buggermen
  2. buggers
  3. buggers about
  4. buggers around
  5. buggers off
  6. buggers up
  7. buggersome
  8. buggery
  9. Buggese
  10. Buggess
  11. Buggesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buggers up (page history and authors); bugger up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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