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Examples of louse up in a Sentence
everything is riding on this project, so we can't afford to louse up
I loused up the wallpapering job in the bedroom—the seams show too much.
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Which is to say that America’s most prominent vaccine skeptic could have the power to upend, derail, or otherwise louse up a cornerstone of public health.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Conversely, one of the easiest ways to louse up a team on draft day is to load up a team with players who aren’t going to produce at a level commensurate with when they were drafted.
—Gary Davenport, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1934, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Louse up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/louse%20up. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
louse up
verb(ˈ)lau̇-ˈsəp
: bungle
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