Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to make a mess of.

1921		Dos Passos Three Soldiers 326: Then they started shootin’ and a bloody bullet buggered the boike.
1933		J. Conroy Disinherited 150: We got to pay you to help bugger us!
1939		E. Hemingway letter 23 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 485: This is the one direction that buggers everything.
1950		K. Williams Diaries 5 May 52: Vanity tailor has buggered my coat completely.
1960		J. Iggulden Storms of Summer 21: You certainly buggered that, didn’t you? [Ibid.] 71: They’re going to bugger this place like they buggered their own grounds around Narrigul.
1973		(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Abdul Abulbul Emir’ in Snatches and Lays 36: For Abdul, the fool, had buggered his tool / On the ring of Skivinsky Skivar.
1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: Managers have buggered all the disciplines, the old laws.
1993		M. Dibdin Dying of the Light 87: What it must be like to having to deal with this lot [...] just plain buggered the imagination.