buggered

Broken; not properly functioning.

Adjective

  1. Broken; not properly functioning.
    • Your telly is buggered, best get it fixed.
    • It's well and truly buggered now; you may as well throw it out.
    • One of the bands that caused my knee to get even more buggered at the last Epitapth (from too much dancing). - 1997 September 11, GothPat, “Whitby bands - opinions needed”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):
  2. In trouble; in a bad situation.
    • The police caught you on CCTV, now you're really buggered.
    • If the banks go abroad we're even more buggered (in the short term, at least, and politicians work pretty much by gradient descent) than if they don't. - 2011 June 14, Tim Bradshaw, “Conspiracy hypotheses”, in...
  3. Tired, worn-out, exhausted.
    • You'll have to take over from here, mate, I'm completely buggered.
    • I am not sure why, but I'm more buggered after I get to the US than I am when I return home. I think it has a lot to do with it being easier to align my sleeping patterns with flying in to Oz during the night (arriving...
  4. damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
    • I'm buggered if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.

Origin

From the verb bugger.

Forms

more buggered most buggered

Synonyms

fucked kaput stuffed in for it all in done in exhausted

Derived

unbuggered

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of bugger