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screw

[skroo] / skru /
VERB
twist in
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My seasonal “screw-it vegetable” I tend to keep a “screw-it” vegetable in the fridge — something I love enough to think, Screw it, I’ll throw a handful of that on.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

Cherukat has often talked about how his music is an implicit nod to Texas hip-hop legends such as DJ Screw, UGK, Big Bunny and Project Pat, who he grew up listening to.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024

And you could buy only one thing there: heat-warped, dragged-out mixtapes and cassettes from store owner DJ Screw, who hawked wares out of his own house until he opened his shop in 1998.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Powell was a member of Houston’s rap collective Screwed Up Click that was formed by the late DJ Screw.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

About whether they were there at all, and if they were, whether they were as evil as the governess in The Turn of the Screw thought.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour




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