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mess-ups

mess-ups is the plural of mess-up.

Meaning of mess-up

Noun

mess-up (plural mess-ups)

  1. (informal) A mistake or fiasco; something that has gone wrong.
  2. (informal) A person who makes many mistakes.

Questions about mess-ups

What is mess-ups the plural of?
Mess-ups is the plural of mess-up.

Words near mess-ups in the dictionary

  1. mess with the bull, get the horns
  2. Mess-John
  3. Mess-Johns
  4. mess-kitted
  5. mess-up
  6. mess-ups
  7. messa
  8. Messac
  9. message
  10. message board
  11. message boards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mess-ups (page history and authors); mess-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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