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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

... mind that he jeered or that his words were often rude; no man of her acquaintance could say things nicely to women, or ever tried. A certain amount of roughness passed for household wit. Chauncey put the screw-driver in his pocket, his wife and son watching him with respectful anxiety. He thought rather well of his own courage privately. But the familiar details of the loom-room cheered him on his way, the homely tools of his every-day work were like friendly faces nodding at him. He knocked ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

... round the screw shaft," he called up to Robert and me. "Queer thing! It feels like a coil of wire. We must have picked it up in the canal by Dordrecht, and ever since it's been slowly winding itself round the shaft, until now it's so tight that the ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... The trivet, or three branched stirrup, by which the jar A is hung to the balance, with the screw by which it is fixed in an accurately ...

— Elements of Chemistry, - In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries • Antoine Lavoisier

... interesting as occupying the pole of the ecliptic. A few years ago Dr. Holden, with the Lick telescope, discovered that it is unique in its form. It consists of a double spiral, drawn out nearly in the line of sight, like the thread of a screw whose axis lies approximately endwise with respect to the observer. There is a central star, and another fainter star is involved in the outer spiral. The form of this object suggests strange ideas as to its origin. But the details ...

— Pleasures of the telescope • Garrett Serviss

... story told of two famous Scandinavians, Ole Bull, the great violinist, and John Ericsson, the great inventor, who taught the world to use the screw in steam navigation. The one was a Norwegian, the other a Swede. They had been friends in early life, but drifted apart and did not meet again until each had become famous. The old friendship was renewed on one of Ole Bull's tours ...

— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon

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