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screw-up
noun- an action or circumstance that has been handled badly US, 1960
- First of all, was a man who had made such a thorough screw-up of his own affairs a suitable mentor for me? — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 335, 1953
- Sorry for the screw-up but since only about ten of us turned up, we decided ... to bugger off to the beach — Reclaim The Streets (RTS), E-mail report, Darwin, Australia, 16 May 1998
- an awkward person an incompetent, a blunderer; an inadequate person US, 1960
- It didn’t cross his mind that this red-eyed, red-nosed, sweaty, pasty-looking screw-up in the beanie hat was Tommy Hanson. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 130, 2002
- When I was an undergraduate, I was described by those who knew me best as a complete screw up (that is a nice way to put it). — Frederick Frank, Playing the Game, p. 58, 2004
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