screw

noun screws

1. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
2. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
3. A ship's propeller. It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
4. An Archimedes screw.
5. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
6. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
7. derogatory, slang A prison guard. The screws moved her out of my cell because they could not stand the idea of a black and white white being together.
8. derogatory, slang An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint. This gentleman and the guard seemed to know Sir Pitt very well, and laughed at him a great deal. They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person.
9. US, dated, slang An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
10. slang, vulgar Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing. Why can't I get just one screw? / Believe me, I'd know what to do / But something won't let me make love to you
11. slang, vulgar A casual sexual partner. If I don't go back to my boy friend he'll be as mad as hell. He's a sulky brute, but Christ, he's a good screw.
12. archaic, slang Salary, wages. “I’ll speak to Mrs. Dorman when she comes back, and see if I can’t come to terms with her,” I said. “Perhaps she wants a rise in her screw. It will be all right. Let’s walk up to the church.”
13. Backspin.
14. dated A twist of paper, especially one containing a small quantity of a material such as salt or tobacco. Before potato crisps were sold pre-salted each packet would contain a screw of salt.
15. dated An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse. […] a gentleman of leisure, who enjoyed himself on a couple of spavined screws […]; both of them, as Stephen said, looked lonely without a gig behind them.
16. A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
17. An amphipod crustacean. the skeleton screw (Caprella)
18. in plural, informal, with definite article Rheumatism. She didn't like my mother, so she made a wax doll and stuck thorns into its legs, and my mother had the screws (rheumatism) in her legs ever since.

verb screws · screwing · screwed · screwn

1. transitive To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

   Similar: screw up, accouple, affix, assemble, associate, attach, bewed, bind, clasp, clinch, combine, conglomerate

2. ambitransitive, slang, vulgar To have sexual intercourse with. Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.

   Similar: fuck, root, shag, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with

3. slang, transitive To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

   Similar: fuck, screw over

4. transitive To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on. […] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]
5. transitive To contort. He screwed his face into a hardened smile.

   Similar: twist, writhe

6. transitive To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot. The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.
7. To screw back.
8. US, dated, slang To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
9. US, dated, imperative, intransitive, often, slang To leave; to go away; to scram. If you don't like it, fuckin' screw! It's Shit Ass Pet Fuckers. That's the way it's going to be.
10. colloquial, imperative, mildly, transitive, vulgar Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something. To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something. Screw those jerks, and screw their stupid rules!

    Similar: bugger, eff, to hell with, fuck, forget, sack

Opposite: unscrew