screw

Definitions of screw in various dictionaries:

noun - someone who guards prisoners

noun - a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole

noun - a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air

noun - a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head

noun - slang for sexual intercourse

verb - have sexual intercourse with

verb - turn like a screw

verb - cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion

verb - tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions

verb - defeat someone through trickery or deceit

A cylindrical rod incised with one or more helical or advancing spiral threads, as a lead screw or worm screw.

The tapped collar or socket that receives this rod.

A tapered and pointed wood screw.

A cylindrical and flat-tipped machine screw.

A device having a helical form, such as a corkscrew.

A propeller.

A twist or turn of or as if of a screw.

Slang.

A prison guard.

The turnkey of a jail.

The act or an instance of having sexual intercourse.

Chiefly British.

Salary; wages.

A small paper packet, as of tobacco.

An old broken-down horse.

A stingy or crafty bargainer.

To drive or tighten (a screw).

To fasten, tighten, or attach by or as if by means of a screw.

To attach (a tapped or threaded fitting or cap) by twisting into place.

To rotate (a part) on a threaded axis.

To contort (one’s face).

To take advantage of; cheat: screwed me out of the most lucrative sales territory.

To have sexual intercourse with.

To turn or twist.

To become attached by means of the threads of a screw.

To be capable of such attachment.

To have sexual intercourse.

Slang.

To be sexually promiscuous.

To muster or summon up: screwed up my courage.

To make a mess of (an undertaking).

To injure; damage: Lifting those boxes really screwed up my back.

To make neurotic or anxious.

To behave in an eccentric manner.

To be insane.

verb - to attach with a screw (a type of metal fastener)

SCREW - A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below), typically made of metal, and charac...