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Definition of Foul up
1. Verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Ballup, Botch, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungle, Bungler, Flub, Fluff, Foul-up, Fuckup, Fumbler, Mess-up, Screwup, Spoil, Spoilage, Spoiling
Definition of Foul up
1. Verb. (intransitive slang idiomatic) To make a mistake, to go wrong. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To botch; to make a mess of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foul Up
Literary usage of Foul up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technical Notes Prepared for the United States Army School of Military by School of Military Aeronautics (1918)
"... and unconsumed fuel will be decomposed into soot by the action of the intense
heat, which will either deposit in the cylinder and foul up the engine or ..."
2. Cane Juice Defecation, 1905 by William Louis Bass (1905)
"It is his affair if he wants heavily limed juice to make crystals, and is willing
to foul up his strike-pan. But the planter or manager of a sugar house ..."
3. American Journal of Education (1880)
"... earthly flames will fend my foul up to the Lord on high. Farewell my children
to the world, where you mult yet remain ; The LORD of holts be your ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Ha'nt 'ее 'eared as Muster Watson's set I to look arter the lads that's bin a
fishin' foul up 'ere now." " I've a heard nothing of the sort," answered ..."
5. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments by Addison (1797)
"... And when that God does take his foul up; His body is to fill that hole up.
BODY and SOUL. TWO inferences, are to be drawn from this. confederation. ..."
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