English verb: ball up | |||
1. | ball up (social) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | ||
Samples | I botched the dinner and we had to eat out. The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement. | ||
Synonyms | blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fail, go wrong, miscarry | ||