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screwing about

screwing about is the present participle and gerund of screw about.

Meaning of screw about

Verb

screw about (third-person singular simple present screws about, present participle screwing about, simple past and past participle screwed about)

  1. (intransitive, slang) Synonym of screw around.
    Synonyms:
    screw around

Questions about screwing about

What is screwing about the present participle and gerund of?
Screwing about is the present participle and gerund of screw about.

Words near screwing about in the dictionary

  1. screwier
  2. screwiest
  3. screwin'
  4. screwiness
  5. screwing
  6. screwing about
  7. screwing around
  8. screwing back
  9. screwing off
  10. screwing over
  11. screwing the pooch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screwing about (page history and authors); screw about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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