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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Screw Loose (A). Something amiss. The allusion is to joinery kept together by screws. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discord | Noun: disagreement; discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling; Verb: screw loose. |
Hindrance | Impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag; check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil. |
Imperfection | Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side. |
Insanity | Screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story. |
Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SCREW LOOSE |
| English words defined with "SCREW LOOSE": A screw loose. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My uncle says you've got a screw loose. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "SCREW LOOSE": A screw loose ♦ have a screw loose ♦ having a screw loose ♦ he has got a screw loose. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SCREW LOOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | побъркан (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, crazy, cuckoo, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty, touched). (various references) | |
Czech | má o koleèko víc (he has got a screw loose, he's as mad as a march hare). (various references) | |
Finnish | on ruuvi löyhällä (has a screw loose), on päässään ruuvi irti (has a screw loose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nincs ki mind a négy kereke (have a screw loose), hiányzik egy kereke (cracked in the filbert, have a screw loose), őrült ötletei vannak (have a screw loose). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewscray ooselay.(various references) | |
Turkish | tahtası eksik (a button short, have a screw loose), kafadan çatlak (barmy, have a screw loose, nutty, off one's onion). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-o-r-s-s-w" | |
-2 letters: colessor, coreless, creosols, crewless, sclerose, scowlers. | |
-3 letters: closers, coolers, creoles, creosol, cresols, crewels, escrows, resoles, roscoes, scowler, woolers. | |
-4 letters: ceorls, closer, closes, colors, cooees, cooers, cooler, corses, cowers, creels, creole, cresol, crewel, crosse, eroses, escrow, lesser, lessor, locoes, looser, looses, losers, lowers, recess, resews, resole, resows, rooses, roscoe, rowels, scores, scowls, screes, screws. | |
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