fuck up

Verb

fuck up (third-person singular simple present fucks up, present participle fucking up, simple past and past participle fucked up)

1. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
   • You really fucked up this time.
   • Don't you fuck up again.

   Synonyms:

   screw up, mess up, blow it, bobble, boob, crap up, miscue, drop a bollock, drop the ball, err

2. (transitive, vulgar) To botch or make a mess of.
   • I fucked up question 3 of the exam.
   • Don't fuck up your arcade game.
3. (transitive, vulgar) To injure or damage badly.
   • I fucked up my knee while running the marathon.
   • I'm about to fuck somebody up for betrayal.

   Synonyms:

   mar

4. (vulgar) To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise alter someone's mental state.
   • I really got fucked up on cocaine last night.2001 January 16, Joe Eszterhas, American Rhapsody, Vintage, →ISBN, page 5
   • Vodka, Bit says, because it fucks you up fastest.2014 July 3, Jess Walter, We Live in Water, Penguin UK, →ISBN
5. (vulgar) To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
   • They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
     They may not mean to, but they do.
     They fill you with their faults they had
     And add some extra, just for you.1971, Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse
   • She'd never get the chance to have the proper goodbye to her own husband, and that fucked me up for some reason.2018 November 27, Diamond Johnson, Love Me 2, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN
6. (slang, transitive, vulgar) Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
   • I could fuck up a burger right now.

   Synonyms:

   destroy

7. (slang, transitive, vulgar) Synonym of crack up (“to cause to laugh”)
   • This video is fucking me up so bad.

   Synonyms:

   crack up