Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who acts carelessly or foolishly; a bungler.
  • noun A blunder; a bungle.

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  • noun vulgar A serious mistake.
  • noun vulgar, pejorative One who continually makes mistakes.
  • noun vulgar, pejorative An ineffective person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an embarrassing mistake
  • noun someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

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Examples

  • No matter what he did or what kind of fuckup he became after.

    The Concrete Blonde Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994

  • No matter what he did or what kind of fuckup he became after.

    The Black Echo Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1992

  • Objects started morphing into other objects, inanimate ornaments and utensils came to life, and an out-of-body experience turned into a going-out-of-my-mind fuckup.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Serious transition fuckup to have DiFi read it in the newspaper, though.

    Not Enjoyin It | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Next year's elections will be the most important since 1989, and [posts about] much of the recent fuckup [our politicians] have caused can be found in the blog archives.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Lawsuits force popular political blog to close down 2009

  • I dreaded telling Julio because it would just confirm that, yeah, I really was the fuckup he always thought I was; a kid having a kid, with no money, no job, nothing.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • No GS-10 in the government, left to her own discretion, would have allowed this colossal fuckup to have happened.

    Matthew Yglesias » Missing: A Plan to Fix the Economy 2009

  • Bitch-slapping the new Intel Chair is something I put in the fuckup category.

    Not Enjoyin It | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • What kind of fuckup was in charge of that operation?

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • I only realized the enormity of my fuckup when I walked out back with a soda and saw smoke on the other side of the garage window.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

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