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screwy

1. mod. crazy. I’ve never heard such a screwy idea.
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. I’ve never seen anybody so screwy.
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The post North Korea says Trump isn't screwy at all, a wise choice for president appeared first on Cyprus Mail .
North Korea says Trump isn't screwy at all, a wise choice for president
As time passed and settlements sprung up all over the plains, screwy fence posts found new applications.
The auger that helped build the West: Vaughan post auger an important key to early barbed wire fences
Police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, considered Joseph O'Callaghan's screwy attempt at bank robbery to be a simple "rookie's mistake"--the kind of little error brand-new criminals sometimes make.
Rookie criminal mistake
The system is screwy and undoubtedly favors the SEC.
SPORTS MAIL
There's some screwy thing that has to do with bureaucratic inertia.
Pot economics
Of course he's also full of vitriol, disdain and aloof passion for the screwy girl next door.
Dianne Touchell author of Creepy & Maude
However, our health care mess is so convoluted and just plain screwy that the ACA was itself convoluted and complex.
Affordable Care Act just scratches the surface: we need to turn down the political rhetoric and take health care reform seriously
to think, how screwy ocean heart, how mellow you to choose tasty me
Apartment 5D
Matt Damon gave a good performance, showing how screwy Mark Whitacre was," said Scott Lassar, former U.
SuperConference Keynote Panel offers inside look at the story behind "The Informant"
This may sound screwy and you may just consider me a boy but I think if a person is big enough and old enough to fight he's certainly old enough to have a wife and no one can beat you
Aide to the ship's surgeon
Screwy symmetry A new form of symmetry called "rotational-reversal" symmetry is discovered (SN: 5/7/11, p.
Matter & energy
Whatever the cause, the odds are good that if something screwy takes place in the field, a pen-raised quail lurks nearby.
Flying off-kilter: for triggering craziness, pen-raised quail reign supreme
This is a pretty screwy set of units for something about crosstalk, but it hints at the fundamental root cause of far-end crosstalk as something related to a velocity.
Solving the field solver 'typo': actually, it's not a typo; it's supposed to be nsec/inch
The plot of Garden, the newest graphic novel/design showcase from Yuichi Yokoyama is this: Some dudes with weird heads wander through a landscape of screwy architecture, where ladders are made out of cloth and books unfold to reveal massive trains.
Unearthly delights: Yuichi Yokoyama's graphic Garden
Thick mass all the way suggests he is at least a 4-year-old, but his points are all screwy.
Deer season's here
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