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Screw

noun

1.

Someone who guards prisoners. Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, turnkey.

2.

A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole.

3.

A propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air. Synonym: screw propeller.

4.

A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head.

5.

Slang for sexual intercourse. Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shag, shtup.

verb

(past & past part. screwed; pres. part. screwing)

1.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

2.

Turn like a screw.

3.

Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion. Synonym: drive in.

4.

Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions.

5.

Defeat someone through trickery or deceit. Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft.

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"Screw" Quotes from Famous Books

... too low for the ports.—Bed of a gun-carriage, or stool-bed. The piece of wood between the cheeks or brackets which, with the intervention of the quoin, supports the breech of the gun. It is itself supported, forward, on the bed-bolt, and aft, generally with the intervention of an elevating-screw, on ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... Karl's shelf I remember well. This was a round piece of cardboard fastened by a screw to a wooden stand, with a sort of comic picture of a lady and a hairdresser glued to the cardboard. Karl was very clever at fixing pieces of cardboard together, and had devised this contrivance for shielding his weak eyes ...

— Childhood • Leo Tolstoy

... "That's right—screw loose," said Willie, genially. "Set 'em here, boy. From the feller's literary style, I'd expected a regular riproarin' fire-eater. Gad, no! Face like a child's, kinder cute-lookin'! Fact. Polite as peaches. ...

— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... world have not been done by men of large means. Ericsson began the construction of the screw propellers in a bathroom. The cotton-gin was first manufactured in a log cabin. John Harrison, the great inventor of the marine chronometer, began his career in the loft of an old barn. Parts of the first steamboat ever run in America were set up in the vestry of a church ...

— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

... a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw. And Allister ran and fetched it, and got back only half an hour before the sun went down. Then they put Nelly into the cottage, and shut the door. But I ought to have told you that they had built up a great heap of stones behind the brushwood, ...

— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald

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