screwed

[ skrood ]
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adjective
  1. fastened with screws.

  2. having grooves like a screw; threaded.

  1. twisted; awry.

  2. Slang. bilked; cheated.

  3. Chiefly British Slang. drunk; intoxicated.

Origin of screwed

1
First recorded in 1640–50; screw + -ed2

Words Nearby screwed

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How to use screwed in a sentence

  • He put his hand to his belt, screwed up his mug, and said he felt plumb et up inside.

    Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates
  • The Seneschal combed his beard and screwed up his pale eyes until they vanished in the cushions of his cheeks.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • The inner tube has an internal flanch, to which a flat circular plate is screwed to close up the tube.

  • And as he said this he rose, screwed up the sheet of thin note-paper, and tossed it into the waste-paper basket.

    The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
  • I am sure youre a sight, she commented, with sisterly frankness; all doubled up and your forehead screwed into knots.

    Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston Carruth

British Dictionary definitions for screwed

screwed

/ (skruːd) /


adjective
  1. fastened by a screw or screws

  2. having spiral grooves like a screw; threaded

  1. twisted or distorted

  2. British a slang word for drunk

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