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Verb: bollix  bó-liks
Usage: vulgar
  1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    "I bollixed the dinner and we had to eat out";
    - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff [informal], blow, flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], balls up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

Derived forms: bollixes, bollixing, bollixed

Type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry

Encyclopedia: Bollix