screw-you

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Noun[edit]

screw-you (plural screw-yous)

  1. Alternative form of screw you
    • 1994, Mirabella - Volume 6, Issues 1-6, page 106:
      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.
    • 2001, Mark Terry, Catfish Guru, →ISBN, page 85:
      Maybe selling this MDT-37 stuff would be a big screw-you on your way out the door.
    • 2013, Victoria Scott, The Liberator, →ISBN:
      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.”
    • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎[1]:
      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.
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