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Definition of a screw up
screw up
noun
- a person who makes many mistakes. Hyphenated.
He's such a screw-up.
Last edited on Jul 08 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
- a mistake. Hyphenated.
It was a huge screw-up.
Last edited on May 02 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 12 2009.
verb - ambitransitive
- to err; "mess up".
They screwed up that paint job.
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Last edited on Jan 13 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.
verb - transitive
- to scar a person emotionally.
Her father really screwed her up.
Last edited on Oct 11 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 11 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'to make a mistake, be incorrect, err': | |
| Definitions include: to arrive unexpectedly and uninvited, esp. to a social function such as a party or ceremony. | |
| Definitions include: to make a mistake. | |
| Definitions include: a funny or silly person. Also goof-ball. | |
| Definitions include: a feature of a specific technology that makes it easy to shoot (one's self) in the foot. | |
| Definitions include: See own goal. | |
| Definitions include: to perform terribly. | |
| Definitions include: to smoke marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: to make a mistake that limits or prevents progress on a task, or reduces the task's level of success. | |
| Definitions include: confused, ruined; "messed up". | |
| Definitions include: "Bollocks" is also the present tense and plural form of bollock. | |
| Definitions include: to not like something you like. | |
| Definitions include: to ruin; "mess up". | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: a person or object that erred. | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally press a button or key adjacent to the desired one, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. | |
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Other terms relating to 'screw': | |
| Definitions include: a phrase of one is about to be in trouble big-time or something bad is about to happen. | |
| Definitions include: to be odd or slightly crazy. | |
| Definitions include: to force a desired action using threats or intimidation. | |
| Definitions include: to take advantage of. | |
| Definitions include: to cheat on one's partner. | |
| Definitions include: Past tense of "screw". | |
| Definitions include: broken, ruined, defective. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of abandon. | |
| Definitions include: a dismissive retort; "buzz off". | |
| Definitions include: to take advantage of. | |
| Definitions include: to be bad or displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: to make an irreparable (possibly tragic) mistake. | |
| Definitions include: to jokingly deceive. | |
| Definitions include: to confuse a person. | |
| Definitions include: to restrict. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
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