Concept cluster: Activities > Making a mistake or messing up
adj
(slang, vulgar) Out of control due to anger or excitement.
v
(intransitive) To sit, move, or scoot about on one's ass; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.
v
(slang, transitive) To badmouth; criticise or malign
v
(intransitive) to mess up; to bugger up
adj
(UK dialectal) Outwitted.
v
(transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
v
(idiomatic) Been exposed to conmen and hucksters; experienced.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.
v
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.
n
Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
n
(informal) A blunder, an error.
v
(US) To make a mistake in.
v
(British, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
n
(Internet) big old frown.
v
(slang) For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.
v
(medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
v
(transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
v
(slang, transitive) To cause a person to be depressed or disappointed.
n
(slang, UK) Being lazy or in a state of boredom.
v
(slang) To mess up; to get seriously wrong.
v
(transitive, Britain) To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
v
Alternative spelling of chut pattern [(Singapore, informal) To inconvenience or disturb; to make a fuss and bother; to act up.]
v
(US, slang) To fail; to blow it, often by making a mistake at the last moment.
n
(dated, British slang) A lie.
v
(transitive, slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.
v
(slang, chiefly used in the past tense) To do something exceptionally foolish or unacceptable.
v
(slang, dated) Synonym of do it up brown (“to do something well or thoroughly”)
v
(slang, dated) To deceive someone thoroughly; to take in completely.
v
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
adj
(dated) Thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled.
adj
(simile, UK, slang) cheated or exploited; treated unfairly
v
To become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
v
(US, chiefly Midland American English and Western American English) To worry; to be eager; to show impatience.
v
(transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
v
(slang) To flub; to botch or mess up.
v
(informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
v
(idiomatic) to make a gaffe or blunder. Euphemism for fuck up.
v
(informal, transitive) To fraudulently dispose of (goods).
v
(intransitive, British dialect) To be troublesome.
v
(intransitive, slang, idiomatic) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
adj
(colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
v
(transitive) To fritter away.
v
(Silicon Valley, slang) To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
adj
Alternative form of fucate [(obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.]
v
(intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
v
(dated, transitive, intransitive) To botch or bungle something.
n
(idiomatic) Any padding or compensation built into a guess or estimate.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To pretend to work when in reality one is not doing anything.
v
(transitive, slang) To introduce problems to or damage through incompetence.
v
(colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin.
v
(obsolete) To harass; to plunder from.
v
To enjoy oneself; to experience enjoyable activities.
n
A person who causes havoc.
adj
(western Canada, slang) beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; screwed.
v
(computing, slang) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
v
(euphemistic, chiefly UK, slang) To make a hash (of something); to make a Horlicks of; to make a mess of.
adj
Alternative form of hanged, drawn and quartered [(informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)]
n
(Western US) A difficult situation.
v
(idiomatic) To cheat or treat unfairly.
v
To behave badly or cause to behave badly.
n
(by extension, idiomatic) The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.
v
(transitive, slang) To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
v
(slang) To diss; to put down.
v
(informal, transitive) To ruin unintentionally.
v
(UK, slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, dupe
v
(transitive, slang) To botch or ruin; to make a mess of.
v
(Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
v
(transitive) to outwit
adj
Abbreviation of paid off.
v
(transitive) To bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass.
v
(idiomatic) To ignore proper behavior or social conventions, especially when it suits one's purpose.
v
(colloquial) To cause great trouble or distress to.
n
(historical) Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”)
n
(idiomatic) A situation in which a person is taken advantage of or treated unfairly; a situation in which a person is led to expect something, but receives nothing or much less than expected.
n
Something that will enrage another particular person.
v
(figuratively, idiomatic) To suffer a fate worse than death.
v
(slang) To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
v
(slang, transitive) To bribe.
v
(transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
v
(idiomatic, colloquial) To fail to do one's work; to goof off.
v
(transitive, slang) To cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
v
(transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
v
(transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
v
(idiomatic) To overindulge someone, especially when it results in making them selfish and demanding.
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(slang) To ruin or harm.
v
(dated, Britain, school slang) To lie; to deceive; to take in.
v
(intransitive, euphemistic) Alternative form of take the mickey, (usually considered more polite) [(intransitive, Britain, slang, idiomatic) To ridicule or mock.]
adj
(idiomatic, slang) Annoyed, upset, angry.
v
To flash one's money around.
n
(idiomatic) Something bad; a mess.
n
(obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.

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