"crap up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-crap up.ogg [Australia] Forms: craps up [present, singular, third-person], crapping up [participle, present], crapped up [participle, past], crapped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crap up (third-person singular simple present craps up, present participle crapping up, simple past and past participle crapped up)
  1. (transitive, slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of. Tags: idiomatic, mildly, slang, transitive, vulgar
    Sense id: en-crap_up-en-verb-A-zerRHk
  2. (idiomatic, slang, mildly vulgar) To go wrong; to foul up; to make a mistake. Tags: idiomatic, mildly, slang, vulgar Related terms: mess up, fuck up, screw up
    Sense id: en-crap_up-en-verb-1IXA59Ae Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 12 88

Inflected forms

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