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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

... my face arouses me. The mood of exultation in my engines, the mood of blank despair, both have passed, and I am, I hope, myself again. Once more "the kick o' the screw beneath us and the round blue seas outside." Once more the wandering fever is in my blood, and, as the winter's day fades away, I stand against the rail looking eastward at the flashing lights, calmer than I have been since that night—a month ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... dream Too long! Another jangle of alarum Stabs at the engines: 'Slow. Half-speed. Full-speed!' The great bearings rumble; the screw churns, frothing Opaque water to downward-swelling plumes Milky as wood-smoke. A shoal of flying-fish Spurts out like animate spray. The warm breeze wakens; And we pass on, forgetting, Toward the solemn horizon of bronzed cumulus That bounds our brooding sea, gathering gloom That, when night ...

— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... principle. In his reply, September 30, 1770, Watt asks, "Have you ever considered a spiral oar for that purpose, or are you for two wheels?" To make his meaning quite plain, he gives a rough sketch of the screw propeller, with four turns as ...

— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... when the bank have lend Meester Washington one hundred thousand dollars, I turn on the screw when he no is prepare to pay," he said. And ...

— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... a four-post bed was in reality a thick, broad mattress, the substance of which was concealed by the valance and its fringe. I looked up and saw the four posts rising hideously bare. In the middle of the bed-top was a huge wooden screw that had evidently worked it down through a hole in the ceiling, just as ordinary presses are worked down on the substance selected for compression. The frightful apparatus moved without making the faintest ...

— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

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