screwgle

screwgle
 v.— «Suggested addition of a new word into the language of the web. Screwgle, as in “My wife caught me leaving a strip club on Google Street View, I got screwgled!”» —“Google Maps zoom feature inspires neologism” by Xeni Jardin BoingBoing May 31, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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