mix up with

phrasal verb

mixed up with; mixing up with; mixes up with

1

: to mistakenly put (something) with (something else)

Did my homework get mixed up with your papers?

2

: to cause (someone) to become involved with (a particular group of people and especially with people who cause trouble)

She was mixed up with the wrong crowd.

teenage boys getting mixed up with gangs

Examples of mix up with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hamas, which claims Shiri and the two boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2023, said later that her body may have been mixed up with the body of another person killed in the airstrike and vowed to investigate. —Lauren Izso, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025

Mark, who longs to give comfort, doesn’t have the self-esteem to protect himself from cruelty when it’s mixed up with the promise of connection. —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025

Might the Martian’s personal predicament be mixed up with his team’s professional plight? —Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2024

Man’s social security number was mixed up with his late daughter’s Anderson lives in Broomfield, about 16 miles northwest of Denver, KMGH reported. —Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024

Sora’s ultra-realistic characters may not get mixed up with Neo-Tokyo’s coolest biker gang or mutate into giant, oozing babies the size of an Olympic sports arena. —David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024

Prone to keeping secrets, could Mack have been mixed up with someone no one knew? —Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024

The movie is about a corny furniture salesman (Patrick Wilson) whose affair with an employee leads to him getting mixed up with some violent criminals, but honestly, Sweet Hell exists as a showcase for Heigl. —Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 10 May 2024

There were swishy trousers and plush overcoats, neckties mixed up with cowboy hats, a bit of fringe and the occasional beat-up leather. —Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024