muck

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muck /m'ʌk/ (mucks mucking mucked)
[N-UNCOUNT]
Muck is dirt or some other unpleasant substance. (INFORMAL)
This congealed muck was interfering with the filter.muck around
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P prep/adv
If you muck around or muck about, you behave in a childish or silly way, often so that you waste your time and fail to achieve anything. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
We do not want people of his age mucking around risking people's lives...
He'd spent his boyhood summers mucking about in boats...
= mess about
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P with n
If you muck around with or muck about with something, you alter it, often making it worse than it was. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
The president's wife doesn't muck around with policy or sit in on Cabinet meetings.
= mess around
3 [PHRASAL VERB] V n P
If you muck someone around or muck them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them or by continually changing plans which affect them. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
He does not tolerate anyone who mucks him about.
= mess aboutmuck in
[PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P with n
If someone mucks in, they join in with an activity or help other people with a job and do not consider themselves to be too important to do it. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
Course residents are expected to muck in and be prepared to share rooms...
She mucked in with the chores and did her own washing and ironing...muck up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P n (not pron), also V n P
If you muck up or muck something up, you do something very badly so that you fail to achieve what you wanted to. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
I mucked up at the 13th hole and told myself that this was getting stupid...
Scientists should figure out how to keep the natural world from mucking up the affairs of people.
= mess up

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