screwed
The English word “screwed” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
- Intoxicated.
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…
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