screwtape.
To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
Meaning & usage
To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
Where this word comes from
In reference to the C. S. Lewis book The Screwtape Letters (1942), about an inexperienced demon sent to tempt a man to sin, from screw + tape.
One of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992
Where this word comes from
After DJ Screw, the Houston Southsider who produced the tapes.
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