Definition of "screwed" in Anglais

adjective

1. (slang, mildly vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

   • They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed.

2. (slang, British, dated) Intoxicated.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of screw

   • He screwed the boards together tightly.
   • I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.
   • 1641, Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution, H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274, […] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.