fuck up
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Northern Ireland, Scotland, Abbreviation, Colloquial, Ellipsis Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- Will you just fuck up? I can't hear.
fuck up
verb/ˌfʌkˈʌp/
8 senses
- 1To make a mistake, to go wrong.
- 2To botch or make a mess of.
- 3To injure or damage badly.
- 4To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise…
- 5To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- 6Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or…
- 7Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- 8Synonym of crack up (“to cause to laugh”)
- You really fucked up this time.
- Don't you fuck up again.
1 more example
- When I was in my 20s and writing my first book—I know, I really fucked up there[.]2023, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic:
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Vulgar To botch or make a mess of.
- I fucked up question 3 of the exam.
- Don't fuck up your arcade game.
1 more example
- 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:
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Vulgar To injure or damage badly.
- I fucked up my knee while running the marathon.
- I'm about to fuck somebody up for betrayal.
4 more examples
- 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 Verse:
- Mom and Pop, they will fuck you up For sure Love so deep, kills you in your sleep It's true1991, “Sax and Violins”, in Once in a Lifetime – The Best of Talking Heads, performed by Talking Heads:
- Shame 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!:
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Vulgar To 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 5:
- Vodka, Bit says, because it fucks you up fastest.2014 July 3, Jess Walter, We Live in Water, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
1 more example
- Yeah, 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:
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Vulgar To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- 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:
- 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, →ISBN:
- I could fuck up a burger right now.
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Vulgar, Used only in imperative Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- Fuck up, mate! I don't want to listen to you!
- Derived terms
- fuckupable, fuck-upper, fuckuppery, unfuckupable
- Related terms
- FUBAR