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I'm familiar with "dicking around" and use the phrase myself. At the USMA, they commonly used the phrase "to dick" meaning "to screw," as in
"Johnson messed things up so bad he dicked the rest of us over as well."
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Also from Urban Dictionary (a highly subjective source I might add):
screw the pooch to fuck things up royally; originally used by U.S. naval aviators to mean "crash one's plane into the water"
dick the dog Navy slang for fucking off, dicking around, being a slacker.
Of note, the colleague I originally referred to is in fact a former Navy officer.
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Quote:
Also from Urban Dictionary (a highly subjective source I might add):
screw the pooch to fuck things up royally; originally used by U.S. naval aviators to mean "crash one's plane into the water"
Ah, yes. My husband and I being military, screwing the pooch is a common phrase around the house. And back to beginning, I think Hitler may have screwed the pooch/putsch! 
Thanks everyone!
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Alex: True UD contains much drek. However it is often the only quick source for a neologism, and can depend upon as about the only reliable source when a def is either reflected in several followups or has a large majority of thumbs up
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