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muck up1Australian / NZ informal Behave badly; mess around: boys are more likely to muck up at what they see as poor teaching...- With the boss away, he steps up to umpire the hour when the kids muck up for the cameras.
- There've been numerous other similar incidents this year of footballers mucking up in public.
- What does a court do where one of the parents deliberately mucks up?
See parent entry: muck muck-up2noun informalSomething done badly or ineptly: the first procedure was a total muck-up...- The hospital was negligent because the first procedure was a total muck-up.
- It is always great to hear a member admit that we are debating a muck-up that the Government made.
- This is an appalling fix-up of a muck-up.
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