mix up with
phrasal verb
mixed up with; mixing up with; mixes up with
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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What To Toss From Your Junk Drawer Junk drawers are commonly found in kitchens; however, Davis advises against getting kitchen items mixed up with the junk drawer.
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Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
He’s joined by Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Bad Bunny (who was absolutely hilarious in Happy Gilmore 2) and more in Darren Aronofsky’s crime drama about a NYC bartender, Hank Thompson (Butler) who gets mixed up with the wrong crew.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Social media users seem to be getting mixed up with a rare eclipse happening on Aug. 2, 2027, Space.com notes.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
The violence of the plantation was such that blood inevitably got mixed up with the sugar cane juice, but Coleman’s analysis of 1790s abolitionist imagery also identifies a symbolic iconography at work.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
This move retires the old AAC acronym—which often got mixed up with the ACC—but introduces a new challenge: competing for search engine optimization with the 2010 George Clooney spy thriller of the same name.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 21 July 2025
Back home, she got mixed up with a nefarious group of hackers led by Anthony Ramos’ character The Hood.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Reducing spending shouldn’t be mixed up with property tax reform, Perez said, which is something the Legislature or governor cannot do anything about this year.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
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Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
He’s joined by Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Bad Bunny (who was absolutely hilarious in Happy Gilmore 2) and more in Darren Aronofsky’s crime drama about a NYC bartender, Hank Thompson (Butler) who gets mixed up with the wrong crew.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Social media users seem to be getting mixed up with a rare eclipse happening on Aug. 2, 2027, Space.com notes.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
The violence of the plantation was such that blood inevitably got mixed up with the sugar cane juice, but Coleman’s analysis of 1790s abolitionist imagery also identifies a symbolic iconography at work.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
This move retires the old AAC acronym—which often got mixed up with the ACC—but introduces a new challenge: competing for search engine optimization with the 2010 George Clooney spy thriller of the same name.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 21 July 2025
Back home, she got mixed up with a nefarious group of hackers led by Anthony Ramos’ character The Hood.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Reducing spending shouldn’t be mixed up with property tax reform, Perez said, which is something the Legislature or governor cannot do anything about this year.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
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“Mix up with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mix%20up%20with. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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