screw-you

A form of screw you — Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw, you.

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Meanings

nounscrew-you (plural screw-yous)

plural screw-yous

  1. alternativeAlternative form of screw you.

    Maybe selling this MDT-37 stuff would be a big screw-you on your way out the door.

    2001, Mark Terry, Catfish Guru, →ISBN, page 85
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    Talk about a fine romance: Clinton's and Bush's campaign engineers trading cheery screw-yous from points along the trail, then meeting up for a bantering dinner a deux.

    1994, Mirabella - Volume 6, Issues 1-6, page 106

    No blood on their hands, nothing Big Guy can complain about, and hell gets what it wants—an end to Trelvator and a big screw-you to the god who ordained her birth.”

    2013, Victoria Scott, The Liberator, →ISBN

    Sitting on the edge of the stage at the show’s end, draped in a flag and singing You Need Me, a bullish screw-you written when he was 15, he didn’t look much like a man still plagued by nerves over headlining Glastonbury.

    2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian
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APA

screw-you. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screw-you

MLA

“screw-you.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screw-you. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “screw-you,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screw-you.

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