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screwing around

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

Meaning of screw around

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To make out or engage in sexual activity, usually without actually having sex.
    • Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant)
  2. (intransitive, slang) To waste time; to dawdle; to play or idle.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To have sex with multiple partners; to sleep around.
  4. (slang) To harass and annoy someone.

Questions about screwing around

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

Words near screwing around in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screwing around (page history and authors); screw around (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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