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screw
[ skroo ]
noun
- a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- a threaded cylindrical pin or rod with a head at one end, engaging a threaded hole and used either as a fastener or as a simple machine for applying power, as in a clamp, jack, etc. Compare bolt 1( def 3 ).
- British. a tapped or threaded hole.
- something having a spiral form.
- Usually screws. physical or mental coercion:
The terrified debtor soon felt the gangster's screws.
- a single turn of a screw.
- a twist, turn, or twisting movement.
- Chiefly British.
- a little salt, sugar, tobacco, etc., carried in a twist of paper.
- Slang. a mean, old, or worn-out horse; a horse from which one can obtain no further service.
- Slang. a friend or employer from whom one can obtain no more money.
- Slang. a miser.
It's not my dream job, but the screw's decent enough.
- Slang. a prison guard.
- Slang: Vulgar.
- an act of sexual intercourse.
- a person viewed as a sexual partner.
verb (used with object)
- to fasten, tighten, force, press, stretch tight, etc., by or as if by means of a screw or device operated by a screw or helical threads.
- to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press.
- to attach with a screw or screws:
to screw a bracket to a wall.
- to insert, fasten, undo, or work (a screw, bolt, nut, bottle top with a helical thread, etc.) by turning.
- to contort as by twisting; distort (often followed by up ):
Dad screwed his face into a grimace of disgust.
- to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense (usually followed by up ):
I screwed up my courage to ask for a raise.
- to coerce or threaten.
- to extract or extort.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- to force (a seller) to lower a price (often followed by down ).
- Slang. to cheat or take advantage of (someone).
- Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
verb (used without object)
- to turn as or like a screw.
- to be adapted for being connected, taken apart, opened, or closed by means of a screw or screws or parts with helical threads (usually followed by on, together, or off ):
This top screws on easily.
- to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion.
- to practice extortion.
- Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
verb phrase
- Slang.
- to do nothing; loaf.
- to leave; go away.
- Slang.
- to ruin through bungling or stupidity:
Somehow the engineers screwed up the entire construction project.
- to make a botch of something; blunder:
Sorry, I guess I screwed up.
- to make confused, anxious, or neurotic:
Losing your job can really screw you up.
- Slang.
- to waste time in foolish or frivolous activity:
If you'd stop screwing around we could get this job done.
- Vulgar. to engage in promiscuous sex.
screw
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noun
- a device used for fastening materials together, consisting of a threaded and usually tapered shank that has a slotted head by which it may be rotated so as to cut its own thread as it bores through the material
- Also calledscrew-bolt a threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded cylindrical hole; bolt
- a thread in a cylindrical hole corresponding with that on the bolt or screw with which it is designed to engage
- anything resembling a screw in shape or spiral form
- a twisting movement of or resembling that of a screw
- Also calledscrew-back billiards snooker
- a stroke in which the cue ball recoils or moves backward after striking the object ball, made by striking the cue ball below its centre
- the motion resulting from this stroke
- another name for propeller
- slang.a prison guard
- slang.salary, wages, or earnings
- a small amount of salt, tobacco, etc, in a twist of paper
- slang.a person who is mean with money
- slang.an old, unsound, or worthless horse
- slang.often plural force or compulsion (esp in the phrase put the screws on )
- slang.sexual intercourse
- have a screw loose informal.to be insane
- turn the screw or tighten the screw slang.to increase the pressure
verb
- tr to rotate (a screw or bolt) so as to drive it into or draw it out of a material
- tr to cut a screw thread in (a rod or hole) with a tap or die or on a lathe
- to turn or cause to turn in the manner of a screw
- tr to attach or fasten with a screw or screws
- informal.tr to take advantage of; cheat
- troften foll byup to distort or contort
he screwed his face into a scowl
- Alsoscrew back to impart a screw to (a ball)
- tr, often foll by from or out of to coerce or force out of; extort
- slang.to have sexual intercourse (with)
- slang.tr to burgle
- have one's head screwed on or have one's head screwed on the right way informal.to be wise or sensible
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ³¦°ù±ð·É±ð°ù, noun
- ˈ²õ³¦°ù±ð·ÉËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ²õ³¦°ù±ð·Éa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
- ²õ³¦°ù±ð·Éİù noun
- ²õ³¦°ù±ð·Él±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ²õ³¦°ù±ð·Él¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of screw1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of screw1
Idioms and Phrases
- have a screw loose, Slang. to be eccentric or neurotic; have crazy ideas:
You must have a screw loose to keep so many cats.
- put the screws on, to compel by exerting pressure on; use coercion on; force:
They kept putting the screws on him for more money.
- have one’s head screwed on right/straight. head ( def 67 ).
More idioms and phrases containing screw
- have a screw loose
- pluck (screw) up one's courage
- tighten the screws
- turn up the heat (put the screws on)
Example Sentences
“Everything Trump touches he screws up. I don’t know why he thinks these tariffs are such a good idea, but who knows how his brain works? I sure as hell don’t.â€
Minutes later, he drills new brackets and screws into the wobbly legs of a few restaurant chairs.
Characters don’t screw so much as they screw each other over, but even their betrayals carry a degree of certitude that negates mere sensuality.
Among the most recent statements, Trump claimed: “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. … And they’ve done a good job of it.â€
Yet Gloucester-Hartpury gradually turned the screw to showcase why they have been the dominant force in the league for the past three campaigns.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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