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      • From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be/get mixed up with somebody to be involved with someone who has a bad influence on you When he left college he got mixed up with the wrong people. → mixed up Examples from the Corpus be/get mixed up with somebody • Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
  1. To confuse a person or thing with someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "get" and "mixed up." I think he got the dates mixed up for our meeting. He should have been here an hour ago. Uh oh, I got the powdered sugar mixed up with the baking soda.

  2. To become involved with someone dangerous or troublesome. Don't get mixed up with a dangerous crowd like that. I got mixed up with some druggies in college, and it took me a long time to get clean.

  3. to be connected with a bad or unpleasant person or thing: Please don't get mixed up with him. You'll regret it if you do. I knew someone who was mixed up in that corruption scandal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Taking part and getting involved. actor.

  4. • We used to get mixed up with the fight. be/get mixed up with somebody meaning, definition, what is be/get mixed up with somebody: to be involved with someone who has a ba...: Learn more.

  5. If you are mixed up, you are confused, often because of emotional or social problems. I think he's a rather mixed up kid. I get mixed up about times and places. To be mixed up in something bad, or with someone you disapprove of, means to be involved in it or with them.

  6. 1. : to mistakenly put (something) with (something else) Did my homework get mixed up with your papers? 2. : to cause (someone) to become involved with (a particular group of people and especially with people who cause trouble) She was mixed up with the wrong crowd. teenage boys getting mixed up with gangs. Examples of mix up with in a Sentence.

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  8. mixed up adjective (DISORDERED) (of names, information, files, etc.) put into the wrong place or order, esp. when put where similar things belong: They got his records mixed up (= confused information about him with someone else's information).

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