Screw
WordNet
noun
(1) Slang for sexual intercourse
(2) A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
(3) A propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
(4) A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
(5) Someone who guards prisoners
verb
(6) Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
(7) Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
"Screw the bottle cap on"
(8) Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
"Drive in screws or bolts"
(9) Turn like a screw
(10) Have sexual intercourse with
"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"
"Adam knew Eve"
"Were you ever intimate with this man?"
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Etymology
from , referring to the screw-like tip of a boar's penis.
Noun
- 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.
- A ship's propeller.
- An Archimedes screw.
- A prison officer.
- Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- have a good screw
- 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"
Verb
- To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- 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.
- To be angry.
- To forget or not care about
- To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.