fuckup
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Definition
Noun: 1. A serious or embarrassing mistake, blunder, or failure: A situation or action that goes very wrong, often due to incompetence, carelessness, or bad judgment. 2. A person who habitually makes such mistakes; an incompetent or unreliable person: A derogatory term for someone who consistently fails or causes problems.
Usage and Examples
- Referring to a mistake or failure:
- The missing data was a major fuckup that cost the company the contract.
- I apologize for the fuckup with the hotel reservations; I'll fix it immediately.
- Referring to an incompetent person:
- Don't put him in charge of the project; he's a total fuckup.
- She felt like a complete fuckup after forgetting the important meeting.
Advanced Usage and Notes
- Register: This is a vulgar slang term (taboo, offensive). It is highly informal and inappropriate for formal, professional, or polite contexts.
- Intensifiers: Often used with intensifiers like "complete," "total," "major," or "royal" to emphasize the severity of the failure or the degree of incompetence.
- The launch was a complete fuckup from start to finish.
Variants and Related Words
- Fuck up (verb phrase): To make a serious mistake; to ruin or damage something.
- I really fucked up the presentation.
- Fucked up (adjective): 1. In a state of serious disorder or malfunction. 2. (Of a situation) morally wrong or distressing. 3. (Of a person) emotionally or psychologically damaged.
- The file system is completely fucked up.
- That's a really fucked-up thing to say.
Synonyms
- For a mistake: blunder, botch, debacle, disaster, failure, mess-up.
- For a person: incompetent, bungler, failure, loser (slang), screw-up (slang).
Related Idioms and Phrases
- A fuckup of epic proportions: An exceptionally large or catastrophic failure.
- To be a fuckup magnet: To be a person who seems to attract problems and failures.
Noun
- an embarrassing mistake
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence