screw-off

or screw·off

[ skroo-awf, -of ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a loafer; idler.

Word History and Origins

Origin of screw-off¹

Noun use of verb phrase screw off

Example Sentences

We can also, in my opinion, occasionally tell those protesters to screw off, if it gets us to our next moment of grace.

From New York Times

Atherton Lin is the hot boy at the bar who fixes the object of his complicated affection with a piercing glare, equal parts “screw me” and “screw off” — only here he’s looking at himself in the bar mirror, analyzing both his reflection and the glass that contains it.

From New York Times

"I told my body to screw off for 15 years and it finally turned around and said, ‘I’m not going to do it anymore.’"

From Fox News

“I told Omar I wanted a house that says, ‘Screw off,’” Samson says; in response, Gandhi built a pair of simple seaside cabins under steep aluminum gables, then removed all windows from the side facing the road and stained both buildings black.

From New York Times

“I thought, ‘What if people out there don’t know that they have the right to tell those people to screw off?’” she said.

From New York Times