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Adjective: screwed
Usage: informal
  1. Very drunk
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], lit up [slang], trolleyed [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], legless [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], paralytic [Brit], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], stinko [informal], hammered [informal], trashed [informal], pickled [informal], wasted [informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], tanked up [informal], steaming [informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], out of it [Brit, informal], blitzed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], bombed [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], drunk, pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
     
  2. In a difficult or hopeless situation
    - shafted [informal]
Verb: screw  skroo
  1. Turn like a screw
     
  2. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
    "drive in screws or bolts";
    - drive in
     
  3. Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
    "Screw the bottle cap on"
     
  4. [informal] Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
    - cheat, chouse, shaft [informal], chicane, jockey
     
  5. [vulgar] Have sexual intercourse
    "they screwed in the back of the car";
    - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: beat, beat out, copulate, couple, crush, fasten, go around, mate, pair, revolve, rotate, shell, tighten, trounce, vanquish

Antonym: unscrew

Encyclopedia: Screwed

Screw, Nut, Bolt and Rivet Trade union