screw with

screw with

1. To tinker or fiddle with something inappropriately, especially as to cause it to stop working properly, whether due to malice or ineptitude. With screwing with my computer, you're going to break it! I think someone screwed with the control terminal, because none of these buttons are working right anymore.
2. To trick, deceive, confuse, or puzzle someone. He's so gullible that all the kids in his class like to screw with him. One minute she's flirting with me, and the next, she's completely disinterested. Her mixed signals are totally screwing with me! Don't screw with me, Tom—you try any funny business, and I'll make you regret it.
See also: screw
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

screw with

v. Vulgar Slang
1. To alter something improperly, especially on purpose: Someone must have screwed with the motor, because it's not working now.
2. To deceive or confuse someone or something, especially for one's amusement: I thought they might offer me a job, but now I think they were just screwing with me.
See also: screw
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • phutz with (something)
  • mess about
  • mess about with (someone or something)
  • mess about with someone
  • fiddle with
  • fiddle with (something)
  • monkey about with (someone or something)
  • monkey with (someone or something)
  • monkey with someone/something
  • hang up your fiddle
References in classic literature
From the end of the axis which is next the car, proceeds a shaft of steel, connecting the screw with the pinion of a piece of spring machinery fixed in the car.
While evaluating the tension generated in the screw while applying different forces we observed higher levels of tension generated in the dual core screw with single thread.
All that being said, the suitability of using the same screw with both amorphous or crystalline polymers should be determined by economic evaluation and not by convenience.
If a badly-stuck screw simply must come out, a good cure is to warm the receiver and then cool the screw with liquid nitrogen or dry ice.
screw with a battery-powered drill and no pilot hole is quite a claim.
1) [1]; and a mixing screw with a double flight mixing element in the terminal zone (no.
Insert the hexagon screw with the lockwasher into the left side of the lever and pintle holes.
The typical pin extruder, therefore, has a screw with a mixing area in the feed zone, and is otherwise of a relatively simple design.
For a 25.3492mm (0.998 inch) Monel screw with a CTE of 13.86E-6/[degrees]C (7.7E-6/[degrees]F) running at 333.3[degrees]C (600[degrees]F) above room temperature, the increase in screw diameter will be 0.1168 mm (0.0046 inch).
All screws produced a linear increase in throughput with screw speed, although the barrier flighted screw with Maddock mixer performed consistently better for the grade of LDPE reported here, agreeing with previous work quantifying the link between screw configuration and dynamic performance [18].
Injection unit: Hydraulic, reciprocating screw with accumulator, electric screw drive
Then line up the screw with the center of the framing and squeeze the trigger to bring the driver up to speed.
Supplies compounding systems for PVC and engineering resins based on Buss kneader and higher-output Quantec kneader, both of which combine a reciprocating single screw with barrel pins.
Highlighting new Fusion II screw with notched flights in mixing section for greater mixing at lower temperatures.
Use a screw with at least 20:1 L/D to attain good distributive mixing.