screw

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Derived terms 1.4.4 Translations 1.5 Anagrams

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Middle French escroue (“‘nut, socket’”) (Modern French écrou), from Latin scrofa (“‘sow’”), referring to the screw-like tip of a boar's penis.

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screw (plural screws)

1. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
2. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a shank 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. (nautical) A ship's propeller.
4. An Archimedes screw.
5. (slang) A prison officer.
6. (vulgar) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.

   have a good screw

7. (slang) Salary, wages.
   • 1888: Rudyard Kipling, "In the Pride of His Youth"

     A certain amount of "screw" is as necessary for a man as for a billiard-ball.

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• bolt

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to screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)

1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
2. (transitive) (vulgar) (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (transitive) (slang) To cheat or treat unfairly. Sometimes seen in the form 'screw (someone) over'. In combining this sense with the usage as a synonym for sexual intercourse, screw follows fuck.
4. (intransitive) (slang) To be angry.
5. (transitive) (slang) To forget or not care about
6. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.

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• WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse (2)
• fuck (taboo slang) (2, 3)
• (Australian) root (2)
• (British) shag (2)

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• unscrew

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• crews