What does foul up mean?
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foul up
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Princeton's WordNet
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-booverb
an embarrassing mistake
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck upverb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Wiktionary
foul upverb
To make a mistake, to go wrong.
foul upverb
To botch; to make a mess of.
ChatGPT
foul up
"Foul up" is an informal term used to refer to a situation in which something goes wrong, typically as a result of mistakes, misunderstanding or carelessness. It can also be used as a verb that means to mishandle, botch or make a mistake that disrupts an activity or process.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of foul up in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of foul up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of foul up in a Sentence
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
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