louse up
English
Verb
louse up (third-person singular simple present louses up, present participle lousing up, simple past and past participle loused up)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) To mess up; to confuse; to put into a state of disorder.
- 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 3:
- To be loused up by Humbolt was really a kind of privilege. It was like being the subject of a two-nosed portrait by Picasso, or an eviscerated chicken by Soutine.
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Related terms
- lousy
Translations
to mess up
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