dick up

verb

To ruin; to spoil

Meanings

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

present singular third person dicks up · participle present dicking up · participle past dicked up · past dicked up

  1. slangtransitivevulgarTo ruin; to spoil

    He's here to make sure us local woodchucks don't dick it up

    2014, Tom Bouman, Dry Bones in the Valley: A Henry Farrell Novel
    1 more example

    Just because we had a deadbeat father who dicked up our childhood doesn't mean you have to micromanage every waking minute of Franklin's

    2012, Julie Ann Walker, Rev It Up

    Synonyms: cock up, fuck up

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo ruin; to spoil

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