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fuckuppery

An expressive vulgar noun covering the full spectrum of screw-ups, disasters, and self-inflicted chaos.

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#1·Apr 28, 2026

An expressive vulgar noun covering the full spectrum of screw-ups, disasters, and self-inflicted chaos. 'Fuckuppery' isn't just a single mistake — it's a pattern, a culture, a systemic tendency toward catastrophic incompetence. You can have isolated fuckups, but fuckuppery implies the kind of ongoing, institutionalized bungling that suggests nobody is ever going to get their act together. It's deployed with equal parts rage and exhausted resignation, usually when surveying wreckage of someone else's making.

After reading through the project timeline, she could only shake her head at the sheer scale of the fuckuppery involved.
Origin: An English neologism formed from 'fuckup' (a serious mistake or blunder) plus the abstract noun suffix '-ery', suggesting a category or pattern of behavior rather than a single incident. Editorial expansion authored on Slangora.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(slang, vulgar) Trouble or ruination.

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