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muck up

[muhk-uhp] / ˈmʌkˌʌp /














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But the president’s mishandling of the coronavirus has been not one discrete choice but a rolling, catastrophic muck-up.

From Washington Post

Not even the best picture muck-up during the 2017 Academy Awards could compare to the devastation that the comedian/game show host/relationship advice huckster inflicted upon Columbian contestant and eventual runner-up Ariadna Gutierrez, who saw her life-long dream come true, only for it to be ripped away a few moments later.

From The Guardian

“If it was an alien spacecraft, it was the Brexit of alien spacecraft. It was a complete muck-up,” says Fitzsimmons.

From The Verge

I think the IOC made a complete muck-up of it.

From BBC

“Mayoral leadership is very visible, it’s about walking down the street and somebody saying ‘you’ve made a right muck-up of that’.

From The Guardian