"bollocks up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-bollocks up.ogg [Australia] Forms: bollockses up [present, singular, third-person], bollocksing up [participle, present], bollocksed up [participle, past], bollocksed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bollocks up (third-person singular simple present bollockses up, present participle bollocksing up, simple past and past participle bollocksed up)
  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of. Tags: Australia, Commonwealth, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang, vulgar

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bollocks up meaning in English (1.8kB)

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