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balls up; ball up
verb
to make a mistake; to err; to mess something up AUSTRALIA, 1969- Had they ever made a mistake somewhere, a balls-up? — J.E. MacDonnell, Big Bill the Bastard, p. 73, 1976
- — Peter Corris, Pokerface, p. 182, 1985
- Tony Kelly made a balls of things, he freely admits it. — Farmers Journal (Ireland), 3 October 1998
- Another fuckin’ balls up... I’ve lost my stash [of drugs] again! — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 14, 2000
- You say that the present generation has balled things up to the extent that we now face a war so terrible that the very thought of it makes hardened veterans shudder. — Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway, p. 3, 1955: Open Letter to the Youth of our Nation
- — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 92, 1969
- Look, you could ball up a good story. You haven’t the experience to tackle something like this. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 145, 1982
- Most people get to some point like this and most of them balls it up. — Peter Corris, Pokerface, p. 157, 1985
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