mixed
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mixed up
1. Confused. I'm sorry I'm late, I must have gotten mixed up about the time for our meeting.
2. Of various substances, completely combined, typically by having been stirred together. Don't add the cream until the eggs and sugar are completely mixed up.
3. Jumbled or disorganized. My intern must have filed these incorrectly—they're all mixed up. The keys are all mixed up in that drawer. You'll have to sort them.
4. Of multiple things, having been confused for or erroneously swapped with each other. How did our car keys get mixed up? Did we put them on the same tray?
5. Involved or implicated in something negative or troublesome. Don't get mixed up with a dangerous crowd like that. I got mixed up in drugs during college, and it took me a long time to get clean.
6. slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really mixed up!
See also: mixed, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
mixed
verbSee mixed up
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- a mixed bag
- a mixed bag/bunch
- a mixed blessing
- a mixed picture
- be a mixed blessing
- be mixed up in (something)
- be mixed up with (someone)
- be/get mixed up in something
- be/get mixed up with somebody
- crazy mixed-up kid
- get (a) mixed message(s)
- get (a) mixed signal(s)
- get mixed up in (something)
- get mixed up with (someone)
- have mixed feelings
- have mixed feelings (about something)
- mix (one) up in (something)
- mix (one) up with (someone)
- mix (something) down
- mix (something) up with (something else)
- mix and match
- mix and mingle
- mix apples and oranges
- mix in (with)
- mix into
- mix it (up)
- mix up
- mix with (someone or something)
- mixed
- mixed bag
- mixed bag, a
- mixed blessing
- mixed blessing, a
- mixed emotions
- mixed feelings
- mixed message
- mixed signal
- mixed up
- mixed up in
- mixed up in (something)
- mixed up with
- send (a) mixed message(s)
- send (a) mixed signal(s)