screwnoun/ˈskɹuː/

• 1

  A device that has a helical function.

• 2

  A device that has a helical function.

• 3

  nauticaltransportA device that has a helical function.

  • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
• 4

  A device that has a helical function.

• 5

  A device that has a helical function.

• 6

  The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.

• 7

  derogatoryslangA prison guard.

  • The screws moved her out of my cell because they could not stand the idea of a black and white white being together.
  • And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
• 8

  derogatoryslangAn extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.

  • This gentleman and the guard seemed to know Sir Pitt very well, and laughed at him a great deal. They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person.

screwverb/ˈskɹuː/

• 1

  To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

• 2

  vulgarslangTo have sexual intercourse with.

  • Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.
  • He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.
• 3

  slangTo cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

• 4

  To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.

  • […] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]
  • It is not surprising that the landowner strove to screw his tenants.
• 5

  To contort.

  • He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
  • I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
• 6

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.

  • The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.
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  ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo screw back.

• 8

  datedslangTo examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.