louse up
verbUK /ˈlaʊs ˈʌp/
1
Colloquial, Idiomatic To mess up; to confuse; to put into a state of disorder.
- To be loused up by Humbolt was really a kind of privilege. It was like being the subject of a two-nosed portrait by Picasso, or an eviscerated chicken by Soutine.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 3:
- The recent flu epidemic that loused up all my plans to see Pat Bond.1980 April 12, Nancy Walker, “Parents and Friends of Gays”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
- Related terms
- lousy