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mess up

[mes-uhp] / ˈmɛsˌʌp /


NOUN
an error, mistake; confusion
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"What Alan Garten did here is a pretty significant mess-up and again, as you just appropriately stated, it corroborates everything that I said."

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023

"But it's different for each mess-up, you know?!"

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2021

Nick Faldo has a pretty eye-opening mess-up right off the bat on the telecast.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 10, 2020

And, although I was just a bit-player in the story, the film dramatises a monumental mess-up on my behalf – the biggest mistake of my career.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2019

Happened once before, without this mess-up of the signs.

From The Sky Is Falling by Del Rey, Lester