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Examples of cockup
cockup
What's surprising is that it's a Lib Dem trying to mitigate a cockup caused by a Labour majority council.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hmm, there was a cockup but now its gone.
From the guardian.co.uk
Its a right cockup by Royal Mail and its the poor postman as usual that gets the flack from the disgruntled customer.
From the theargus.co.uk
He pauses, milking the hilarity of his cockup.
From the guardian.co.uk
A few of you cockup atrociously, and then the whole organisation must be lashed like a boatful of galley slaves.
From the guardian.co.uk
I have a little bit of sympathy for Sony over the first hacking thing, as that wasn't their fault, but this is just a massive cockup.
From the guardian.co.uk
He says it was a cockup which undoubtedly cost Ukip votes and could have helped Boris Johnson's bid for four more years at City Hall.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Ballup: something badly botched or muddled
- (British slang) A complete mess. "The organisers made a cockup of that festival from beginning to end." Usually refers to something large and complicated; you generally wouldn t say that a guitar was a cockup, but you might say "That company sure makes a cockup of guitar-building."
- N. v. To cock-up is to make a complete mess of something. You'd use it along the lines of "I went to a job interview today and cocked it up completely". ...
- To relax with one's limbs spread
- A balls-up: total disaster.
