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scupper up

To ruin, thwart, or bungle something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "scupper" and "up." The scandal with the CEO is threatening to scupper up the business merger. I really had a good thing going with John, but I scuppered things up when I drunkenly kissed Mike on a night out.
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scupper up

in. to drink liquor, especially beer. Tom goes home to scupper up every evening.
See also: up
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
The danger is that a handful of Tory Remainers will maintain a narrow paranoid view and scupper the efforts of our new Prime Minister as they did the last one, leaving us forever under the dead hand of Brussels.
Before joining Rusty Scupper she was a baker at Horseshoe Baltimore where she was responsible for the preparation of all the baking needs for the service, line, events and special requests at the venue.
It was around 10pm when the minister tweeted that there was a "last-ditch effort in progress by the establishment to scupper Gesy.
If your kayak manufacturer doesn't offer wheels designed specifically to fit your boat's scuppers, the local shop offers universal cradle-type carts that adapt to any paddle boat.
I didn't know what speed was needed for the nosewheel to hop over the scupper and put me into the water.
Four Baltimore restaurants and seven from Maryland made the list of top 100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America for 2018, according to users of OpenTable, an online restaurant-reservation service company.<br />Restaurantsmaking the list from Baltimore were Rusty Scupper, Gertrude's, The Food Market and Woodberry Kitchen.
JEREMY Clarkson has denied trying to "scupper" Chris Evans' attempts to revive Top Gear - because it could cost him money.
Could it be that they do not want to be associated with any part of the project which our old friend Donald Trump is determined to scupper, and might even manage to do so?
Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan claimed that the Prime Minister was deliberately raising public borrowing levels to "scupper" the Tories' prospects if they won the next election.
A ROYAL Navy support ship forced Caribbean drug runners to scupper their own boat after a night-time chase, preventing cocaine with an estimated street value of up to pounds 500m heading towards Britain, the Ministry of Defence has said.
Pedro Duarte was named executive chef at the Rusty Scupper Restaurant and Bar.
THE Scottish Executive were yesterday urged not to scupper the Bill aimed at making St Andrew's day a public holiday.
If it wasn't enough that we have too many agencies with their fingers in the redevelopment of the city centre, now we have someone who was good enough to come all the way up from London, threatening to outdo them at their game and scupper plans for the King's Dock.
Whenever we reach some sort of solution they scupper it.
This is a mighty blow for the region which will put 1,200 workers on the dole and scupper the hopes of thousands more who hoped to be employed on the carrier contracts.
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