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Screw
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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, esp. 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.
screw propeller.
Usually, screws. physical or mental coercion
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.
British Informal . salary; wages.
Slang . a prison guard.
Slang
- Vulgar
- an act of coitus.
- 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 insert, fasten, undo, or work (a screw, bolt, nut, bottle top with a helical thread, etc.) by turning.
to contort as by twisting; distort
to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense (usually fol. by up )
to coerce or threaten.
to extract or extort.
to force (a seller) to lower a price (often fol. by down ).
Slang . to cheat or take advantage of (someone).
Slang
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 fol. by on, together, or off )
to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion.
to practice extortion.
Slang
Verb phrases
screw around, 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 off, Slang .
- to do nothing; loaf.
- to leave; go away.
screw up, Slang .
- to ruin through bungling or stupidity
- Somehow the engineers screwed up the entire construction project.
- to make a botch of something; blunder.
- to make confused, anxious, or neurotic. ?
Idioms
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.
Antonyms
verb
Synonyms
verb
- spiral , tighten , turn , twine , wind , work , contract , crimp , crinkle , crumple , distort , pucker , rimple , ruck up , rumple , scrunch , wrinkle , bilk , bleed , cheat , chisel , coerce , constrain , defraud , do * , exact , extort , extract , force , hold a knife to , oppress , pinch * , pressurize , put screws to , ream , shake down * , squeeze , wrench , wrest , wring , bolt , clamp , fasten , rack , rivet , thread , twist
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Screw *
mooring screw., 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,... -
Screw ball
slang . an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut., baseball . a pitched ball that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown.,... -
Screw eye
a screw having a ring-shaped head. -
Screw jack
jackscrew. -
Screw pine
any tropical asian tree or shrub of the genus pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots,... -
Screw propeller
a rotary propelling device, as for a ship or airplane, consisting of a number of blades that radiate from a central hub and are so inclined to the plane... -
Screw thread
also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw., a full turn of the helical ridge of a screw. -
Screwdriver
a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that... -
Screwed
fastened with screws., having grooves like a screw; threaded., twisted; awry., slang . bilked; cheated., chiefly british slang . drunk; intoxicated. -
Screwy
crazy; nutty, disconcertingly strange, absurdly peculiar or impractical; ridiculous, adjective, i think you 're screwy , refusing an invitation to the... -
Scribble
to write hastily or carelessly, to cover with meaningless writing or marks, to write or draw in a hasty or careless way., to make meaningless marks, scrolls,... -
Scribbler
a writer whose work has little or no value or importance., a person who scribbles. -
Scribe
a person who serves as a professional copyist, esp. one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing., a public clerk or writer, usually... -
Scriber
a tool for scribing wood or the like. -
Scrim
a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc., theater . a piece of such fabric used as a drop, border, or the like, for creating... -
Scrimmage
a rough or vigorous struggle., football ., to engage in a scrimmage., noun, the action that takes place between the teams from the moment the ball is snapped... -
Scrimp
to be sparing or frugal; economize (often fol. by on ), to be sparing or restrictive of or in; limit severely, to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly... -
Scrimpiness
scanty; meager; barely adequate., tending to scrimp; frugal; parsimonious. -
Scrimpy
scanty; meager; barely adequate., tending to scrimp; frugal; parsimonious. -
Scrimshank
to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
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