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Noun: foul-up  'fawl,úp
Usage: informal
  1. An embarrassing mistake
    "The foul-up in scheduling resulted in double-booked meeting rooms";
    - blunder, blooper [N. Amer, informal], bloomer [informal], bungle, pratfall [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], botch, boner [N. Amer, informal], boo-boo [informal], boob [Brit, informal], goof [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]
Verb: foul up
Usage: informal
  1. Badly mishandle or ruin something
    "I fouled up 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], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

Derived forms: fouled up, fouls up, foul-ups, fouling up

Type of: error, fail, fault, go wrong, miscarry, mistake

Encyclopedia: Foul up