Usually means: Mistake caused by incompetence, confusion.
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  1. foul-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. foul-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foul-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foul-up, foul-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foul-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. foul-up: Wordnik
  7. foul-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foul-up: Wiktionary
  9. foul-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foul-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foul-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. foul-up: Dictionary.com
  13. foul-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. foul-up: Rhymezone
  15. foul-up: FreeDictionary.org
  16. foul-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. foul-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. foul-up: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foul-up)

▸ noun:  A disastrous mistake.

Similar:
blunder, bungle, botch, blooper, flub, boo-boo, misdoing, boner, stuff-up, fluff-up, more...

Opposite:
success, accomplishment, achievement, triumph

Types:
forgetting, miscommunication, procrastination, oversleeping, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, miscalculation, negligence, more...



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Similar:
blunder, bungle, botch, blooper, flub, boo-boo, misdoing, boner, stuff-up, fluff-up, more...

Opposite:
success, accomplishment, achievement, triumph

Types:
forgetting, miscommunication, procrastination, oversleeping, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, miscalculation, negligence, more...



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