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mess-up

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n.1.Something badly botched or muddled.
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Noun1.mess-up - something badly botched or muddledmess-up - something badly botched or muddled  
balls-up, ballup, cockup
error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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mess-up [ˈmesʌp] N (Brit) → follón m, lío m
we had a mess-up with the trains → nos hicimos un lío con los trenes
mess-up
n → Kuddelmuddel nt (inf); it’s a complete mess-up → da ist alles schiefgelaufen (inf)
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