cock-upnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒk.ʌp/us/ˈkɑːk.ʌp/UK slangsomething that is done wrong or badly:
Gerry's made a right cock-up with/of those figures!
So it was delivered to the wrong place? What a cock-up!
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- dead duck
- dead loss
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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