Something badly botched or muddled.
1Grunwald tried to be gentle but candid about the driver's license cockup: It wasn't great.
2Those who cockup had better take out insurance.
3It was a total ongoing cockup.
4I'll do my best to pick you up in a day or two, if this cockup gets sorted by then.
5Both the US and UK have their litany of favourite defence procurement cockups.
6King and Crewe reckon that Labour and Tory governments are equally prone to cockups.
7On the 14th he anchored in the straits of See Cockup (Si Kakap), which divide the Northern from the Southern Pagi.