Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Completely messed up or mishandled; botched.
  • adjective Badly damaged or injured.
  • adjective Exceedingly drunk or intoxicated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Vulgar slang snarled or stalled in complete confusion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Drunken.
  • adjective Injured.
  • adjective Damaged or poorly manufactured.
  • adjective Annoying, evil or wrong.

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  • adjective snarled or stalled in complete confusion

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Examples

  • Figure skating, where jealousy runs as rampant as rhinestones, is a fucked-up place to find your romantic future.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • It was a memory, not a fucked-up collection of faraway places, random body parts, death, destruction, and the graphic vileness of war.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • What choice have I when everything, I roared, is so fucked-up?

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • While everyone else had their hometown and skating credentials, my description sounded like a fucked-up singles ad.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • What choice have I when everything, I roared, is so fucked-up?

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • What choice have I when everything, I roared, is so fucked-up?

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • But if you tackle those subjects you're more likely to be lauded for it than reviled for breaching the taboo -- assuming you're approaching them/as topics/rather than just expressing some fucked-up personal freakery.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • Indeed, the book is so fucked-up mental in terms of structure, I suspect that only a director free from studio interference could get it made in anything remotely resembling the book itself, so it would either have to be someone working as an indie, or someone who's built up * serious clout* in Hollywood.

    Indie vs Hollywood Hal Duncan 2010

  • There was a fucked-up chance of me catching a bullet if I turned on the kitchen light.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • What choice have I when everything, I roared, is so fucked-up?

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

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