cock-up

noun

Definition of cock-upnext
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as in shambles

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  1. botch
  2. mess
  3. fiasco
  4. muddle
  5. disaster
  6. debacle
Noun
  • Spider-Man 3 (2007) A botch job of oppositional motivations practically disowned by its own director, the messiest Spider-Man movie is a near-constant tonal misfire, simultaneously more serious than its predecessors and more willfully goofy.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • After a botch in the corner, the announce team continued to tell the story that LA Knight couldn’t get anything going and was not in the right mental space to contend with The Nakataker.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of botch
Noun
  • Over the last month, the Rangers have been a mess at five-on-five — more than usual — and have had a bafflingly bad power play.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Though the storm largely subsided by Tuesday morning, another weather system forecast is expected to spread a wintry mess from Texas to the East Coast later this week, which means people likely won't be able to put down the shovels anytime soon.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of mess
Noun
  • Guaranteed there will be no repeat of last year’s Taylor Swift fiasco, when host Jo Koy told a joke at Taylor Swift’s expense in his opening monologue.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
  • If the Kings were going to write a script for how to turn Fox into a sympathetic figure in this whole fiasco, this would be it.
    Sam Amick, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of fiasco
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  • Among those muddles: Who exactly are Sylvie’s parents?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024
  • Except maybe for 1992’s South of the Border, West of the Sun, no previous Murakami novel has so clearly dealt with and inhabited the muddle of middle age.
    Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of muddle
Noun
  • All aboard the confirmation train Several more of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks faced probing questions Thursday on policies like fossil fuel drilling and federal disaster aid during their confirmation hearings before the Senate.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Victims can apply for other forms of disaster assistance.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of disaster
Noun
  • This caps off a year in which federal politicians zeroed in on private equity ownership of health-care providers, including the Steward Health debacle, and pushes Congress one step closer to new regulations.
    Caitlin Owens, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That tent city debacle is a blueprint for what not to do.
    Gerard S. Williams, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of debacle
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