MUCK UP meaning: Ruin or spoil something carelessly

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word muck up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

muck up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
muck up: Merriam-Webster
muck up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
muck-up, muck-up, muck up: Collins English Dictionary
muck up: Vocabulary.com
muck-up: Wordnik
muck-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
muck-up, muck up: Wiktionary
muck-up: Infoplease Dictionary
muck-up, muck up: Dictionary.com
muck up: Rhymezone
muck up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
muck up: FreeDictionary.org
muck up: Mnemonic Dictionary
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muck up: Encyclopedia

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muck up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

muck up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
muck-up, muck (something) up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
muck up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (muck up)

▸ verb: (informal, transitive, intransitive) To ruin unintentionally.
▸ verb: (informal, Australia, intransitive) To clown around; to have fun, often at the expense of others.

Similar:

botch, foul up, mess up, bungle, flub, blunder, screw up, louse up, bollocks up, botch up, more...

Opposite:

succeed, accomplish, execute, achieve, perform

Types:

botch, bungle, flub, screw up, mess up, more...

Phrases:

muck up day, more...

Adjectives:

botched up, screwed up, bungled, bad, whoopsy, messed up, wrecked, beef, hosed, fubar, unken

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