ball-up
Make a mess
A ball-up is a mess or blunder—something that's gone badly wrong.
British and Australian in flavor, it's the noun form of the verb phrase ball up, meaning to bungle: The whole project was a ball-up from the start.
In Australian rules football, a ball-up is when the umpire bounces the ball to restart play after a stoppage.
Soft compressed mass
- scrunchCrush compactly
- crumpleCompress into irregular folds
- creaseLine from folding
- wrinkleSurface fold or crease
rumple · squash · compress · crush · compact · squeeze · fold · distort
Hostile vocal threat
- knotTied rope fastening
- tangleTwisted mass of strands
- snagUnforeseen complication
- matFlat floor covering
kink · twist · coil · jumble · mess · muddle · entangle · ravel
wad
Soft compressed mass
wrinkle · rumple · squash · compress · crush · compact · squeeze · fold · distort · deform
snarl
Hostile vocal threat
mat · kink · twist · coil · jumble · mess · muddle · entangle · ravel · foul
botch
Spoil through incompetence
goof · snafu · mistake · error · mishandle · muff · spoil · ruin · wreck · muddle
muddle
Disordered, bewildered state
bewilder · confound · disorient · scramble · discombobulate · addle · baffle · puzzle · bamboozle · obfuscate
ball-upstraighten
Make linear or orderly
smooth · flatten · unfold · spread out · smooth out