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• n  something badly botched or muddled

• When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you.
• But it was a right mess-up.

• ballup
• balls-up
• cockup

News & Articles

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• A guide to crash speak
  The more complicated planes get, the harder it is to fly them. There are more ways for pilots to both mess up and to compensate for their mess-ups, and there are more dials, flashing lights and doo-dads for them to keep watch on. That said, there are a few basic principals of flying that apply to the Asiana crash, principals that might be obscured by some of the aviation lingo that's being ...
  July 9, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News