# fuckup

Pronunciation: US say "FUK-up" /ˈfʌkʌp/; UK

## Noun

1. A serious error.
   - Simple: A very bad mistake.
   - _Whose fuckup was it that left the freezer door open all night?_
   - _The launch was one fuckup after another, from the typos to the broken checkout page._
2. A person who constantly makes mistakes.
   - Simple: Someone who makes mistakes all the time.
   - _He spent his twenties convinced he was a fuckup who would never hold down a job._
   - _The new manager wasted no time firing the two biggest fuckups on the team._
3. An insulting word for a person who is mentally or emotionally damaged.
   - Simple: A rude, unkind word for a person who has been badly hurt in mind or feelings.
   - _After the divorce he described himself as an emotional fuckup who pushed everyone away._
   - _The novel's hero is a lonely fuckup still haunted by the way his father treated him._

## Origin

A noun formed from the phrasal verb fuck up.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fuckup (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).