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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
One of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
After DJ Screw, the Houston Southsider who produced the tapes.
In reference to the C. S. Lewis book The Screwtape Letters (1942), about an inexperienced demon sent to tempt a man to sin, from screw + tape.
