"foul up" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /faʊl ˈʌp/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-foul up.ogg [Australia] Forms: fouls up [present, singular, third-person], fouling up [participle, present], fouled up [participle, past], fouled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} foul up (third-person singular simple present fouls up, present participle fouling up, simple past and past participle fouled up)
  1. (intransitive, slang, idiomatic) To make a mistake, to go wrong. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive, slang Synonyms (make a mistake): mess up
    Sense id: en-foul_up-en-verb-ROWJ9M8q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 89 11 Disambiguation of 'make a mistake': 97 3
  2. (transitive) To botch; to make a mess of. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-foul_up-en-verb-u~dHxrks
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fuck up [vulgar], make a mistake, mess up Derived forms: foul-up

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for foul up meaning in English (2.1kB)

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