screwtape

Meanings

Verb

To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.

Noun

One of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992

Origin

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.
After DJ Screw, the Houston Southsider who produced the tapes.

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