screwtapeEtymologyIn 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.verbTo mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.“His collection of songlines and timelines snarled at him like a screwtaped confession.”nounOne of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992“In addition, slab riders were not only playing the screwtapes in their decks, they were also rapping on them.”