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Screwed, Blewed and tattooed

To get paid, to spend one's pay recklessly, and get tattooed. Paid, clipped and tattooed. Sailors.

The Slang Dictionary - John Hotten - 1913
-Screw: salary, or wages.
-Blue, or BLEW: to pawn or pledge. Actually to get rid of.
-Blew, or BLOW: to lose or spend money.
-Blewed, a man who has lost or spent all his money is said to have BLEWED it.

-Blewed, got rid of, disposed of, spent.

A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant - Albert Barrère 1889
- Screw: salary, wages. Implies... effort by employer to diminish the rate, or employee to enforce payment of, the salary, which has to be screwed out.
-Blew, or blue: to waste to spend, to dissipate. "I blew a bob (I wasted a shilling)," To spend or lose one's money in gambling or betting.
-Blewed: spent, disposed of. Lost or been robbed of. Primarily, to put, to spend. German blauen, which suggests blue, and not to blow, as original. Ins blaue hinein (away into the blue), vanished, gone; the French passe au bleu has the same signification. Faire passer au bleu, to suppress, dissipate, spend, squander, appropriate. An allusion to a distant, undefined place in the blue above.
-Blue, blew:To spend or lose one’s money at gambling. To waste money generally. Varied to blew, from the phrase "blown in," which refers to money that has been spent, as in the phrase, "I’blewed’ all my tin." For a another variation see BLEWED.
-Blue the screw, (popular), to spend one’s salary

To blew one's pay means to ruin it or wreck it.
John Jones is back on board because he's got no money left. He got screwed, blewed and tattooed, but he's got no regrets.
by Z.W. Wolf July 3, 2021
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screwed, blued and tattooed

The process of becoming a full-fledged sailor -- have sex before going off to sea, get dressed in a navy uniform and then you get a tattoo.

I use it to describe my summer...Got laid, got drunk, got ink done.
This summer I got screwed, blued and tattooed.
by Tuna Box December 4, 2007
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tattooed

He went down to the mosh pit and got tattooed by the head bangers.
by PeeBee March 1, 2004
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Typical tattooed rugby lad

Loud, annoying and think they're gods gift to woman. Usually as thick as a concrete slab and only cares about 'the lads' beer, rugby and gaming
Look at him over there who keeps pulling the push door! Must be a typical tattooed rugby lad

He has like two drags on a spliff and it knocks him out, must be a typical tattooed rugby lad
by Exactlywhoyouthinkiam June 25, 2020
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Tattoober

When a tattoo artist is so intoxicated, you’re forced to act as an Uber driver to pick up the artist for the appointment.
Has anyone seen Kevin today? Jason is driving tattoober to get him for his appointment.
by Yasinhudic February 21, 2022
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tattooedheaart

the baddest of all bitches 🙄 “ass water
omg did you see that bitch on tiktok tattooedheaart? I wanna slap that hoe
by the notorious big barbie August 26, 2021
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Tattooless

That tattooless son of a bitch cut my tattoo down.
by wilso024 December 3, 2022
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