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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

... he broke the path for me through the winter snows on the long way to school! How faithful he was to write to me and to visit me wherever I was, after I left home! How he longed to follow my example and break away from the old place but could never quite screw his courage up to the sticking point! He never read one of my books but he rejoiced in all the good fortune that was mine. Once when I was away at school and fell short of money, Hiram sent me a small sum when Father could not or would not send. In later life he got it ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... legitimate use for such a piece of thread in the box. And remember that this box locks and opens with a key owned by the man who installs the telephone. You noticed that I had to pick this lock. It looks like a screw head that opens with a screw ...

— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew

... fellow," Mr. Carvel continued. "It seems to be a kind of fatality with me to get along with Yankees. I reckon there's a screw loose somewhere, but Brice acted the man all the way through. He goa a fall out of you, Silas, in your room, after the show. Where are ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... legs, which he placed carefully on the ground. Then a small bar was screwed on to the top, and over the bar was screwed the leaf, or table itself, which consisted of three pieces unfolding with hinges. These, when the screw had been duly fastened in the centre, opened out upon the bar, and there ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... disputes, heats and bitter contentions might arise, a thing my spirit hath not pleasure in: I feared also, that both myself and words would be misrepresented; and that not without cause, for if they that answer a book will alter, and screw arguments out of their place, and make my sentences stand in their own words, not mine, when I say my words are in a book to be seen, what would you have done, had I in the least, either in matter or manner, though but seemingly ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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