screw you

• screw-you (noun sense only)

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screw you

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw,‎ you.
   • 2020, David Gomadza, EVELINA: The Alpha:

     I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.

screw you

1. (slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) less offensive version of fuck you.
   • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎:

     During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.

   You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.

   Screw you—go annoy someone else!

   Screw you! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?

• fuck you
• get stuffed
• up yours

screw you (plural screw yous)

1. An act of defiance and contempt.
   • 1997, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 150-153:

     You know what it is about that game, the thing that id Software says isn't worth their time (which I personally believe is a big screw you to us gamers),

   • 2011, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Ghost Trackers, →ISBN, page 7:

     Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest. Show them the ugly duckling has morphed into a swan, that kind of thing.

   • 2017, Nina Levine, Hyde's Absolution:

     Well, how about we talk about the way you disrespected me for the last fourteen years by ignoring me? That kinda felt like a big screw you from you to me.”