Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. of people, to harm, to beat up, to hurt emotionally, to act cruelly, to interfere, to mess around with.

1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 100: I just had a real bad feeling that I was going to get fucked over in that court.
1974		R. Stone Dog Soldiers (1976) 89: Your boyfriend Broadway Joe had a bayonet [...] He’s on his way right now to fuck you over.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 246: I’d say I’ve fucked over a lot of people in my life.
1991		D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 227: Joe is decent, he would never fuck them over.
1997		A. Frewin London Blues 299: He and these other MI5 officers tried to fuck over Harold Wilson and destabilise the Labour Party.
2006		Age (Melbourne) 6 Jan. 🌐 It always came down to us getting f---ed over for our own benefit.
2011		Observer Mag. 30 Jan. 21/3: I’d come back and found my family and then got fucked over by them again.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 111: [H]is son was out there alone being fucked and fucked over.
2016		Guardian G2 14 Oct. 12/1: I really hope that you don’t fuck me overI.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 94: ‘What is it? Dick and Jane Frame a Punter?’ [...] ‘No, it’s called Harry McCoy Got Fucked Right Over’.
2018		C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘You and your paper had fucked him over’.
2020		D. Winslow ‘Sunset’ in Broken 180: The people Terry has fucked over.

2. of places or objects, to render filthy or disarranged.

2009

P. Temple Truth 298: Me and the head of Homicide in some fucked-over back yard in Preston.