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  1. screw the poochverb

    to screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion

  2. Etymology: The term was first documented in the early "Mercury" days of the US space program. It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped design the astronauts' space suits. The phrase is actually a bastardization of an earlier, more vulgar and direct term which was slang for doing something very much the wrong way, as in "you are fucking the dog!" At Yale a friend of Rawlings', the radio DJ Jack May (a.k.a. "Candied Yam Jackson") amended this term to "screwing the pooch" which was simultaneously less vulgar and more pleasing to the ear.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of screw the pooch in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of screw the pooch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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