Usually means: In a difficult or hopeless situation.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Screwed:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. screwed: Merriam-Webster
  2. screwed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. screwed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. screwed: Vocabulary.com
  5. screwed: Wordnik
  6. screwed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. screwed: Wiktionary
  8. screwed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. screwed: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. screwed: Dictionary.com
  11. screwed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Screwed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Screwed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Screwed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. screwed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. screwed: MyWord.info
  17. Screwed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. screwed: FreeDictionary.org
  19. screwed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. screwed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screwed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screwed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCREWED: Acronym Finder
  2. screwed: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. screwed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. screwed: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Screwed: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (screwed)

▸ adjective:  (slang, mildly vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
▸ adjective:  (slang, British, dated) Intoxicated.

Similar:
shaft, jockey, bed, ass, hump, bonk, bang, make out, drive in, shag, more...

Opposite:
unscrewed, unscrew

Types:
screwed over, screwed up, screwed sideways, screwed to the wall, more...

Phrases:
screwed up, be screwed, get screwed, screwed around, screwed round, more...

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Similar:
shaft, jockey, bed, ass, hump, bonk, bang, make out, drive in, shag, more...

Opposite:
unscrewed, unscrew

Types:
screwed over, screwed up, screwed sideways, screwed to the wall, more...

Phrases:
screwed up, be screwed, get screwed, screwed around, screwed round, screwed over, had head screwed on, had head screwed on the right way, has head screwed on, has head screwed on the right way, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     gunmetal, more...



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