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Definition summary: (intransitive, especially UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, idiomatic) To go awry; to go wrong. [from 1980s]

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[Verb]
(intransitive, especially UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, idiomatic) To go awry; to go wrong. [from 1980s]

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