screw off

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screw off

verb screws off · screwing off · screwed off

  1. To remove the lid of a jar or other container by unscrewing it. Hold it in two hands and screw off the lid. Set the lid down. Inside are pickled onions.
  2. colloquial, idiomatic To fail to do one's work; to goof off. When the boss wasn't around on the weekend they would sometimes screw off.
  3. colloquial, idiomatic To leave; to bugger off. I finished the work early so I screwed off.

interjection

  1. idiomatic, possibly, vulgar An expression of surprise or disbelief. "We just won a new car!" "Screw off! You're joking, right?"

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