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Definition of screw around

screw around

verb

  • to cheat on one's partner.
                                                                                                                                                    

    Citation from "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father... Brother?", Family Guy (TV), Season 3 Episode 14 (2001) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                        

                                          

                                                  

    Citation from "Episode 1", Misfits (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2009) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Jan 19 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.

  • to waste time.
    You would have been successful if you could rather work than screwing around all day.

    Last edited on Jan 03 2014. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.

verb - transitive

  • to mistreat.
    I think it's high time you stuck up for yourself and disengaged yourself from that guy who screws you around all the time.

    Last edited on Jan 03 2014. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'around':

Definitions include: the bathroom.
Definitions include: one's home neighborhood.
Definitions include: to waste time.
Definitions include: to delay in getting to the point.
Definitions include: experienced.
Definitions include: to be lazy.
Definitions include: to act like a clown; to joke.
Definitions include: acronym for "cash rules everything around me".
Definitions include: to cruise (drive) around.
Definitions include: to be joking.
Definitions include: to spend time on a non-productive activity; "waste time".
Definitions include: to waste time, to mess around.
Definitions include: to intentionally show off an item.
Definitions include: to engage in intimate sexual activities; "mess around".
Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other.

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: 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 err; "mess up".
Definitions include: to jokingly deceive.
Definitions include: to confuse a person.
Definitions include: to restrict.

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