"bugger up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: EN-AU ck1 bugger up.ogg [Australia] Forms: buggers up [present, singular, third-person], buggering up [participle, present], buggered up [participle, past], buggered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bugger up (third-person singular simple present buggers up, present participle buggering up, simple past and past participle buggered up)
  1. (British, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc. Tags: Australia, British, Ireland, New-Zealand, informal Synonyms: booger up [Southern-US] Translations (to break or spoil something): zkurvit (Czech), bagarap (Tok Pisin), bagarapim (Tok Pisin)

Inflected forms

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