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Definition of "screwup" []

  • Slang One that makes a mess of an undertaking; a bungler. (noun)
  • Slang A blunder; a mess: a managerial screwup. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "screwup" in a sentence
  • "He only has a couple of months left and a new President will have the opportunity to fix the screwup from the 43rd President of the United States of America"
  • "My favorite all-time sighting-in screwup occurred in Africa in 1978."
  • "These comments about the people escaping another Bushcovites screwup is that there isn’t one of them who has ever experienced a single hardship in their whole whimpy lives."