bollocks up
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
The webpage didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting.
“Yep. Throughout all the 'we hate Chavez' bollocks up to 2007 US continued to ship in Venezuelan oil. Lucky they now own very crude Venezuelan oil to feed US refineries... Lucky that”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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