muck up

Definition of Muck Up in English :

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Example Sentences:
'I botched the dinner and we had to eat out'
'the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement'

2. mire, muck, muck up, mud

soil with mud, muck, or mire

Example Sentences:
'The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Muck Up

verb (adverb) informal

1. (transitive) British and Australian

to ruin or spoil; make a mess of

2. (intransitive) Australian

to misbehave

noun

slang

a bungle; something that has gone wrong in some way

This muck-up has got them even more publicity!

n.

1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.

2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.

3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.

4. Something filthy or disgusting.

5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.

6. The pile of discarded cards, as in poker: threw his hand into the muck.

v. mucked, muck·ing, mucks

v.tr.

1. To fertilize with manure or compost.

2. To make dirty, especially with muck.

3. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).

4. To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.

v.intr.

To muck one's hand in a card game.