Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun British something badly botched or muddled; a foul-up.
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- noun idiomatic, UK, vulgar something which becomes
muddled orbotched in some way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something badly botched or muddled
Etymologies
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Examples
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The $3.1 million project suffered a cost blowout of $615,000, which veteran Labor Senator John Faulkner described as a "balls-up".
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Ireland will be given an official apology by the International Rugby Board this week, for the balls-up that cost their team their customary victory in Cardiff.
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I suspect the next thing to be revealed as a total balls-up will be the scrapping of the RDAs.
MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011
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I would like to think that it is a spell-check balls-up, but the mind still boggles.
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I suspect the next thing to be revealed as a total balls-up will be the scrapping of the RDAs.
MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011
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I would like to think that it is a spell-check balls-up, but the mind still boggles.
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To say nothing of the balls-up mess it made of the science of military tactics ... like that final robot battle at the end of Phantom Menace: as though you'd see any significant ground combat in a world where all differences would be settled in space, because whoever won up there could then bombard the other side into submission from on high.
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I would like to think that it is a spell-check balls-up, but the mind still boggles.
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Regardless, both films have endured as deeper examinations of the phenomena and in my opinion are far more effective films than KICK-ASS, which suffers from going all-out and balls-up a little too enthusiastically.
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He researched the subject but found nothing new to say: "Everyone already knew it was a monumental balls-up."
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