What is another word for cocked up?

Pronunciation: [kˈɒkt ˈʌp] (IPA)

Cocked up is an informal phrase that means something has gone wrong or messed up. There are many synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning, including botched, bungled, ruined, flawed, marred, and screwed up. A similar phrase that can be used instead of cocked up is "gone pear-shaped," which means things have not gone as planned and turned out poorly. Other possible synonyms include messed up, fouled up, snafu, mucked up, and scrambled. Regardless of the word or phrase used, it is clear that something has not gone according to plan and requires attention to fix or resolve.

What are the hypernyms for Cocked up?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Cocked up

  • It is, I reckon, difficult to conceive of a single area of government policy that is at once so important for each of us, so catastrophically complicated, so insanely unjust, so obscenely ineffective, and has been quite so comprehensively cocked up by successive administratations as the British pension system.
    Jon Henley

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