dick up
Vulgar slang verb meaning to ruin, spoil, or mess something up — a coarser equivalent of 'cock up' or 'screw up'.
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Vulgar slang verb meaning to ruin, spoil, or mess something up — a coarser equivalent of 'cock up' or 'screw up'. The transitive use implies that someone's actions have caused something to go badly wrong. Common in informal speech where stronger emphasis is wanted.
He managed to completely dick up the presentation by saving over the wrong file.
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(vulgar, slang, transitive) To ruin; to spoil.
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(ambitransitive, chiefly, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang, mildly, vulgar) To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.
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(colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.