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Screw over
To cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
📖 Definitions of "Screw over"
verb
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To cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
"I would have won the game but I got screwed over when I landed on Mayfair."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Screw over"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| screwnoun | A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole. |
| screw withverb | To mess with; to have on; to trick; to play with a lighthearted or joking manner. |
| jerk aroundverb | (informal, transitive) To cheat or treat unfairly. |
| shaftnoun | The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin. |
| screw aroundverb | (intransitive) To waste time; to dawdle; to play or idle. |
| put it toverb | To put up for consideration. |
| do the dirty onverb | (idiomatic, transitive, UK, Australia, informal) To treat (someone) in an unfair manner; to cheat or betray. |
| sellverb | (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. |
| screw aboutverb | (slang, intransitive) Synonym of screw around. |
| run game onverb | (African-American Vernacular, transitive) To cheat someone; to play someone for a fool |
| cheatnoun | (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. |
| screw upverb | (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin. |
| rip offverb | (transitive, slang) To cheat or swindle, especially by charging an excessively high or unfair price. |
| skanknoun | (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity. |
| greasenoun | Animal fat in a melted or soft state. |
| clipnoun | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| slurnoun | An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.). |
| playnoun | (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. |
| get one over onverb | Alternative form of put one over. [(idiomatic) To succeed in a deception.] |
| mess withverb | (colloquial) To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner. |
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