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(Verb) screen:/Screened/Screening To see a notification on your phone but not act on it.
Tina: He's texting me again. Rina: Tell him to stop. Tina: I don't want to be mean. Tina: I know I'll just screen the text.
A term used to describe a form of cheating in video games most common in the game mode split-screen, where the different players battle each other on one screen split into different compartments per player (4 player max.). By looking at a other players screen, the location and other information about that player can be found.
Dude, the only reason you knew where I was hiding was because you were screening!
To stand in front of someone who is trying to shot or walk in a direction in a video game. Occurs with teammates because in many video games your bullets and abilities will not travel through teammates to hit enemies, but enemies projectiles will travel through both your teammate and you. In games which punish players for damaging teammates it can be used as a type of trolling It can be done unintentionally, but the person being screened almost never benefits from it.
Bro wtf, stop screening me. We would've won if my dumbass teammate wasn't screening me