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verb · irregular · intransitive · rare

bollocks up

bollocks up · bollockses up · bollocksed up · bollocksing up

To fail to do correctlyTo fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.

Meaning

1 senses

(Australia, Commonwealth, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, slang, vulgar)To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
The webpage didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting.
make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Forms

bollockses up, bollocksing up, bollocksed up, bollocksed up

Base form	bollocks up · to bollocks up
3rd person singular	bollockses up
Present participle	bollocksing up
Past simple	bollocksed up
Past participle	bollocksed up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	bollocks up
he, she, it	bollockses up

Past simpleLesson

all persons

bollocksed up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have bollocksed up
he, she, it	has bollocksed up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will bollocks up

Synonyms

21 synonyms

Close in meaning

make a mess of, destroy or ruin:botch bodge bumble fumble botch up muff blow flub

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

boldness bologna bolster boltB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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