present participle of mess up

plural of mess of pottage

(nautical, idiomatic) To die, to perish.

Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns

A civil parish in Colchester district, Essex, England, which includes these two villages

To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value.

Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns

Synonym of when you mess with the bull, you get the horns

(informal) If you provoke somebody, you can expect an aggressive reaction.

(computing) An intermediary program that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver in a telecommunication network where programs communicate by exchanging formally-defined messages.