Overview of noun mess-up

The noun mess-up has 1 sense

• ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up -- (something badly botched or muddled)

Overview of verb mess-up

The verb mess up has 3 senses

• botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement")


• ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up -- (disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water")


• mess, mess up -- (make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room")