Overview of noun screw_up

The noun screwup has 1 sense

• screwup -- (the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation; "a typical bureaucratic screwup")

Overview of verb screw_up

The verb screw up has 4 senses

• heat up, hot up, screw up -- (make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up")


• botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement")


• screw up -- (screw or turn higher)


• screw up -- (twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face")