Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, intransitive, vulgar)To make a mess of a situation.

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar)To do something badly. To ruin a job.

    He really ballsed up that paint work. It'll have to be redone!

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Don't balls it up!

    Не обісрися! — deniko

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Origin

From balls + up; see also balls-up.

From balls + up; see also balls-up.

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Forms

ballses up, ballsing up, ballsed up, ballsed up
Base formballs up · to balls up
3rd person singularballses up
Present participleballsing up
Past simpleballsed up
Past participleballsed up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyballs up
he, she, itballses up

Past simpleLesson

all personsballsed up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ballsed up
he, she, ithas ballsed up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill balls up

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ballroomballsbalmbalmybaloney
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