1. Badly mishandle or ruin something
   "I bollixed the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

Derived forms: bollixed, bollixes, bollixing

Type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry

Encyclopedia: Bollix