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'foul up' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has gone wrong or been done incorrectly, for example: "The team really fouled up the project and now we have to start from scratch."
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foul up
verb
To make a mistake, to go wrong.
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To really foul up — it takes a computer".
"We cannot foul up again," one Olympic committee executive said.
Or they could foul up delicate diplomacy at a crucial moment.
If banks foul up on the allocation of capital, the results can be catastrophic.
If their rulers foul up football, they will be red-carded.
Harrington will hold reasonable hopes of seeing one or both of these guys foul up here.
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And that may be the biggest foul-up of these fouled-up negotiations.
But I have several sisters in my foul-up.
A major computer foul-up or even mass civil disobedience, some hint, would not be unwelcome.
Still, this foul-up is only the latest embarrassment for the bureau.
The oath-taking foul-up was not the only opening week boo-boo.
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