buggered up

Wrecked beyond repair

Buggered up means badly damaged, broken, or ruined.

The phrase is British and Australian slang, mildly vulgar: My knee's completely buggered up, The whole system got buggered up when they installed the update.

To bugger something up is to ruin it through incompetence or carelessness.

Related

mangle · screw up · damaged · blunder · made a hash of · wrecked · bungle · botched · mishandled · stuffed up · gone wrong · gone pear-shaped · corrupted · flawed · fouled up · compromised · defective · blew

Opposites
functionality/condition

buggered upfixed

Restored or immovable

repaired · working · functional · in working order · operational

correctness/execution

buggered upnailed

Secured with fasteners

pulled off · spot on · on point · flawless · perfected

order/organization

buggered upsorted

Put in order

in order · straightened out · organized · tidied up · put right

Family

bugger, buggered, buggering, buggers

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Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13