English edit

Verb edit

arse up (third-person singular simple present arses up, present participle arsing up, simple past and past participle arsed up)

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To mess up; to botch.
    • 2011, Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie, page 110:
      Take aim. Throw. If he arsed it up and made the creature angry – ha, well. He didn't look scared though.

References edit

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “arse up”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury