screwed
Meaning
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- (slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
- (slang) Intoxicated.
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Frequency
Etymology
From screw + -ed. * The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives. * The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.
screw
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- A device that has a helical function.
- A device that has a helical function.
- A device that has a helical function.
- A device that has a helical function.
- A device that has a helical function.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- (slang) A prison guard.
- (slang) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- (slang) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
- (slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (slang) Salary, wages.
- Backspin.
- (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
- An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
- A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- (informal) Rheumatism.
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