Meanings
fuck up1
present singular third person fucks up · participle present fucking up · participle past fucked up · past fucked up · alternative fuck-up
- intransitiveslangvulgarTo make a mistake, to go wrong.
Don't you fuck up again.
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You really fucked up this time.
When I was in my 20s and writing my first book—I know, I really fucked up there[.]
2023 January 25, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023Synonyms: screw up, mess up, blow it, bobble, boob, crap up, miscue, drop a bollock
- transitivevulgarTo botch or make a mess of.
Don't fuck up your arcade game.
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I fucked up question 3 of the exam.
Tyrion is made to be a strategic fool. I haven’t been as hard on this aspect of the season as others, because I buy that Tyrion might overestimate himself in military matters. But face-to-face negotiation with power players in the capital? Now that really is his bread and butter, and after a season of fucking things up in Dragonstone, he once again completely misreads the situation in King’s Landing.
2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club - transitivevulgarTo injure or damage badly.
I'm about to fuck somebody up for betrayal.
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I fucked up my knee while running the marathon.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
1971, Philip Larkin, This Be The VerseMom and Pop, they will fuck you up For sure Love so deep, kills you in your sleep It's true
1991, “Sax and Violins”, in Once in a Lifetime – The Best of Talking Heads, performed by Talking HeadsShame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga Wu buck wild with the trigger! Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga I'll fuck your ass up!
1993, “Shame on a Nigga”, in Wu-Tang Clan (music), Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)He'll fuck you up, yes, God will fuck you up If you dare to disobey His stern command. He'll fuck you up, don't you know He'll fuck you up? So you better do some prayin' while you can.
2006, “The Hand of the Almighty”, in John R. Butler (music), Surprise!Synonyms: mar
- vulgarTo 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 52 more examples
Vodka, Bit says, because it fucks you up fastest.
2014 July 3, Jess Walter, We Live in Water, Penguin UK, →ISBNYeah, well the use of smack, cocaine, and other nasties continues, along with a wide range of designer drugs. […] There's still plenty of shit quality material available to fuck up the youth.
2015 April 13, Graeme Innes, Platypus Dreaming: ... a prophecy, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN - vulgarTo traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
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, →ISBN1 more example
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 - abbreviationellipsisvulgarEllipsis of shut the fuck up.
Fuck up, mate! I don't want to listen to you!
plural fuck ups
- alternativeAlternative spelling of fuckup.
The heart of the matter is this: feminism’s been hijacked by the dark forces of judginess, by our communally created fear that our every deed, word, thought, joke and Tweet is being monitored for fuck ups.
2015, Polly Vernon, “Feminist Fatigue, Fit Shame and FOGIW”, in Hot Feminist: Modern Feminism with Style without Judgement, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, part 1 (Non-Judgement Day), page 31
fuck up2
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make a mistake, to go wrong.
verbTo injure or damage badly.
verbSynonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
verbSynonym of crack up (“to cause to laugh”)
More synonyms by meaning
verbmake a mess of, destroy or ruin
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian развалям
- развалям (razvaljam)to injure or damage
Catalan fotre, cagar-la
- fotreto injure or damage
- cagar-lato injure or damage
Chinese Mandarin 搞砸
- 搞砸 (gǎozá)to make a mistake, to go wrong
Czech posrat to
- posrat toto make a mistake, to go wrong
Danish fejle, mislykkes
- fejleto make a mistake, to go wrong
- mislykkesto make a mistake, to go wrong
- ødelæggeto botch or make a mess of
- skadeto injure or damage
- ødelæggeto injure or damage
Dutch (het) verknallen, verneuken
- (het) verknallento make a mistake, to go wrong
- verneukento botch or make a mess of
- verpestento injure or damage
- naar de kloten helpento injure or damage
Esperanto paneigi, rompi
- paneigito botch or make a mess of
- rompito injure or damage
- damaĝito injure or damage
Finnish möhliä, möhlätä
- möhliäto make a mistake, to go wrong
- möhlätäto make a mistake, to go wrong
- mokatato make a mistake, to go wrong
- munatato make a mistake, to go wrong
- tunaroidato make a mistake, to go wrong
- ryssiäto make a mistake, to go wrong
- möhliäto botch or make a mess of
- möhlätäto botch or make a mess of
- mokatato botch or make a mess of
- munatato botch or make a mess of
- tunaroidato botch or make a mess of
- ryssiäto botch or make a mess of
French merder, foirer
- merderto make a mistake, to go wrong
- foirerto make a mistake, to go wrong
- déconnerto make a mistake, to go wrong
- faire une connerieto make a mistake, to go wrong
- se planterto make a mistake, to go wrong
- foirerto botch or make a mess of
- merderto botch or make a mess of
- bousillerto injure or damage
- péterto injure or damage
- niquerto injure or damage
- défoncerto injure or damage
- foutre en l'airto injure or damage
German Scheiße bauen, verkacken
- Scheiße bauento make a mistake, to go wrong
- verkackento make a mistake, to go wrong
- verkackento botch or make a mess of
- zerfickento injure or damage
Greek γαμώ
- γαμώ (gamó)to injure or damage
Hebrew פִשֵּׁל
- פִשֵּׁל (fishél)to botch or make a mess of
Hungarian csődöt mond, elbasz
- csődöt mondto make a mistake, to go wrong
- elbaszto injure or damage
- elkúrto injure or damage
Italian fare una cazzata, farla grossa
- fare una cazzatato make a mistake, to go wrong
- farla grossato make a mistake, to go wrong
Japanese 沼る
- 沼るto make a mistake, to go wrong
Latvian sapist
- sapistto injure or damage
Lithuanian suknisti, supisti
- suknistito make a mistake, to go wrong
- supistito injure or damage
Norwegian Bokmål føkke opp, kuke opp
- føkke oppto botch or make a mess of
- kuke oppto botch or make a mess of
Polish zjebać, nawalić
- zjebaćto make a mistake, to go wrong
- nawalićto make a mistake, to go wrong
- spierdolićto make a mistake, to go wrong
- uwalićto botch or make a mess of
- zjebaćto botch or make a mess of
- spierdolićto botch or make a mess of
- rozkurwićto botch or make a mess of
- spieprzyćto botch or make a mess of
- rozpierdolićto injure or damage
- rozjebaćto injure or damage
Portuguese fazer besteira, meter os pés pelas mãos
- fazer besteirato make a mistake, to go wrong
- meter os pés pelas mãosto make a mistake, to go wrong
- foder tudoto make a mistake, to go wrong
- fazer merdato make a mistake, to go wrong
- foderto injure or damage
Romanian o da în căcat, da greș
- o da în căcatto make a mistake, to go wrong
- da greșto make a mistake, to go wrong
- o face de oaieto make a mistake, to go wrong
- o da în barăto make a mistake, to go wrong
- o scrântito make a mistake, to go wrong
- futeto injure or damage
- stricato injure or damage
- defectato injure or damage
- deteriorato injure or damage
- avariato injure or damage
- rănito injure or damage
- vătămato injure or damage
Russian накосячить, запороть
- накосячить (nakosjačitʹ)to make a mistake, to go wrong
- запороть (zaporotʹ)to botch or make a mess of
- разъеба́ть (razʺjebátʹ)to injure or damage
Scottish Gaelic mill, sgrios
- millto injure or damage
- sgriosto injure or damage
- creachto injure or damage
Slovak dojebať to, dojebať
- dojebať toto make a mistake, to go wrong
- dojebaťto botch or make a mess of
- rozjebaťto injure or damage
Spanish cagarla, joderla
- cagarlato make a mistake, to go wrong
- joderlato make a mistake, to go wrong
- fastidiarlato make a mistake, to go wrong
- meter la patato make a mistake, to go wrong
- pifiarto make a mistake, to go wrong
- joderto injure or damage
- cagarto injure or damage
- tirarto injure or damage
- chingarto injure or damage
- descuajaringarto injure or damage
- descuajeringarto injure or damage
Swedish misslyckas, göra bort sig
- misslyckasto make a mistake, to go wrong
- göra bort sigto make a mistake, to go wrong
- sabbato botch or make a mess of
- skadato injure or damage
- sabbato injure or damage
Turkish bok yemek, sikip atmak
- bok yemekto make a mistake, to go wrong
- sikip atmakto injure or damage
- becermekto injure or damage
- halletmekto injure or damage
- canına okumakto injure or damage
Cite this entry
fuck up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuck%20up
“fuck up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuck%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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