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crap up

crap up verb: to ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.

Verb

crap up (third-person singular simple present craps up, present participle crapping up, simple past and past participle crapped up)

  1. (idiomatic, mildly, slang, transitive, vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.
    • This whole thing's his big, bright idea because they don't like having me around crapping up their big, romantic weekends.1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Meet Me in Time, page 177
  2. (idiomatic, mildly, slang, vulgar) To go wrong; to foul up; to make a mistake.
    • I really crapped up on my fucking school work, so I had to do that frustrating piece of shit all over again.
  3. (idiomatic, slang) To lie, mislead or give someone bullshit; to tell someone what they want to hear.

Forms of crap up

third-person singular presentcraps up
present participlecrapping up
past participlecrapped up
pastcrapped up

Questions about crap up

What does crap up mean?
Crap up means to ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.
What part of speech is crap up?
Crap up is a verb.
What is the past tense of crap up?
The past tense of crap up is crapped up.

Words near crap up in the dictionary

  1. crap sandwiches
  2. crap shoot
  3. crap shoots
  4. crap ton
  5. crap tons
  6. crap up
  7. crap-shoot
  8. crap-shoots
  9. crapacious
  10. crapalicious
  11. crapass

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