see|screw-up
English
Verb
to screw up
- transitive To tighten or secure with screws.
- transitive To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
#*1942: As far as was possible he kept his subjects as mindless fighting-cocks, troops that could be promised to one power if there was a chance of screwing up another power to a bugger subsidy. � Rebecca West. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1052)
- transitive To twist or crush together.
- context|transitive|colloquial To make a mess of; to ruin.
- context|intransitive|colloquial To blunder; to make a mistake.
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