fuck about vs fuck up

fuck about

verb
  • To fool around. 

  • To waste time with unimportant activities, often used as an admonition to urge the other party to stop wasting time. 

fuck up

verb
  • To botch or make a mess of. 

  • To make a mistake, to go wrong. 

  • To injure or damage badly. 

  • To cause someone to make a big mistake. 

How often have the words fuck about and fuck up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )