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To get paid, to spend one's pay recklessly, and get tattooed. Paid, clipped and tattooed. Sailors.
The Slang Dictionary - John Hotten - 1913
-Screw: salary, or wages.
-Blue, or BLEW: to pawn or pledge. Actually to get rid of.
-Blew, or BLOW: to lose or spend money.
-Blewed, a man who has lost or spent all his money is said to have BLEWED it.
-Blewed, got rid of, disposed of, spent.
A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant - Albert Barrère 1889
- Screw: salary, wages. Implies... effort by employer to diminish the rate, or employee to enforce payment of, the salary, which has to be screwed out.
-Blew, or blue: to waste to spend, to dissipate. "I blew a bob (I wasted a shilling)," To spend or lose one's money in gambling or betting.
-Blewed: spent, disposed of. Lost or been robbed of. Primarily, to put, to spend. German blauen, which suggests blue, and not to blow, as original. Ins blaue hinein (away into the blue), vanished, gone; the French passe au bleu has the same signification. Faire passer au bleu, to suppress, dissipate, spend, squander, appropriate. An allusion to a distant, undefined place in the blue above.
-Blue, blew:To spend or lose one’s money at gambling. To waste money generally. Varied to blew, from the phrase "blown in," which refers to money that has been spent, as in the phrase, "I’blewed’ all my tin." For a another variation see BLEWED.
-Blue the screw, (popular), to spend one’s salary
To blew one's pay means to ruin it or wreck it.
John Jones is back on board because he's got no money left. He got screwed, blewed and tattooed, but he's got no regrets.
a.k.a Baltimore Colts screw job. when a person, place, or thing screws another person, place, or thing who then screws another person, place, or thing in retaliation, thus creating a domino effect.
Famous Domino Screw Jobs
1. When Robert Irsay moved the Baltimore Colts, little did he know that he would screw not only Baltimore, but also Cleveland for years later Baltimore got the Cleveland Browns to move there and leaving Cleveland a horrible team after 3 years of inactivity.
2. When the Seattle Seahawks signed Pete Carroll from USC, they also screwed Tennessee because USC signed Lane Kiffin in Retaliation
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The process of becoming a full-fledged sailor -- have sex before going off to sea, get dressed in a navy uniform and then you get a tattoo.
I use it to describe my summer...Got laid, got drunk, got ink done.
This summer I got screwed, blued and tattooed.
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When looking up you're name, and seeing something you don't like? Screw. Urban. Dictionary.
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When someone does something which annoys you and drives you mad
She’s really annoying
Isn’t she, she just drives my screws
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The feeling you get after prolonged screw driver use—the blistering soreness in the palm of your hands that makes you want to drown them in an ice bath.
Man, I've got some serious screw driver hands after putting up those mini blinds!
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