screw
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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)
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- 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.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (slang) A prison officer.
- (vulgar) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- have a good screw
- (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.
- 1888: Rudyard Kipling, "In the Pride of His Youth"
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terms derived from screw (noun)
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fastener
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ship’s propeller
Archimedes screw
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prison guard
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act of screwing
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to screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (transitive) (vulgar) (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (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.
- (intransitive) (slang) To be angry.
- (transitive) (slang) To forget or not care about
- (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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terms derived from screw (verb)
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To connect or assemble pieces using a screw
To have sexual intercourse with
To cheat or treat unfairly