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dick up

dick up verb: to ruin; to spoil.

Verb

dick up (third-person singular simple present dicks up, present participle dicking up, simple past and past participle dicked up)

  1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To ruin; to spoil
    • Just because we had a deadbeat father who dicked up our childhood doesn't mean you have to micromanage every waking minute of Franklin's2012, Julie Ann Walker, Rev It Up
    • He's here to make sure us local woodchucks don't dick it up2014, Tom Bouman, Dry Bones in the Valley: A Henry Farrell Novel
    Synonyms:
    cock up, fuck up

Synonyms of dick up

Forms of dick up

third-person singular presentdicks up
present participledicking up
past participledicked up
pastdicked up

Questions about dick up

What does dick up mean?
Dick up means to ruin; to spoil.
What part of speech is dick up?
Dick up is a verb.
What is the past tense of dick up?
The past tense of dick up is dicked up.

Words near dick up in the dictionary

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