screwup
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noun Slang.
1.
a mistake or blunder: The package was delayed through an addressing screwup.
2.
a habitual blunderer.
Also, screw-up.
Origin:
1955–60; Americanism; noun use of verb phrase screw up
1955–60; Americanism; noun use of verb phrase screw up
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| screwup | |
noun | |
| the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation; "a typical bureaucratic screwup" |
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Screwup
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Their computer would be a screwup, a face-plant, a botched job.
It was a screwup game played against the depressing backdrop of a city torn by riots and flames.
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