Definitions for screw

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screw screw

Spelling: [skroo]

IPA: /skru/

Screw is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in screw (cersw).

Definitions for screw

noun

1. 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.
2. 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 bolt1 (def 3).
3. British. a tapped or threaded hole.
4. something having a spiral form.
5. screw propeller.
6. Usually, screws. physical or mental coercion:
7. a single turn of a screw.
8. a twist, turn, or twisting movement.
9. 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.
10. British Informal. salary; wages.
11. Slang. a prison guard.
12. Slang: Vulgar. an act of coitus. a person viewed as a sexual partner.

Idioms

1. have a screw loose, Slang. to be eccentric or neurotic; have crazy ideas:
2. have one’s head screwed on right/straight. head (def 67).
3. put the screws on, to compel by exerting pressure on; use coercion on; force:

Verb phrases

1. screw around, Slang. to waste time in foolish or frivolous activity: Vulgar. to engage in promiscuous sex.
2. screw off, Slang. to do nothing; loaf. to leave; go away.
3. screw up, Slang. to ruin through bungling or stupidity: to make a botch of something; blunder: to make confused, anxious, or neurotic:

verb (used with object)

1. 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.
2. to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press.
3. to attach with a screw or screws:
4. to insert, fasten, undo, or work (a screw, bolt, nut, bottle top with a helical thread, etc.) by turning.
5. to contort as by twisting; distort (often followed by up):
6. to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense (usually followed by up):
7. to coerce or threaten.
8. to extract or extort.
9. to force (a seller) to lower a price (often followed by down).
10. Slang. to cheat or take advantage of (someone).
11. Slang: Vulgar. to have coitus with.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn as or like a screw.
2. 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):
3. to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion.
4. to practice extortion.
5. Slang: Vulgar. to have coitus.

Origin of screw

1375-1425; late Middle English scrwe, screw(e) (noun); compare Middle French escro(ue) nut, Middle Dutch schrûve, Middle High German schrûbe screw

Examples for screw

I have got a screw in my pocket, and I never go without my tool-knife.

Then they sent me to psychologists and it was like “screw his head on straight.”

If a propeller acts in the same way as a screw, then it too must have a pitch.

No sunlight ever made her blink, or screw her face into wrinkles.

If the threads are 1/32 inch apart, then the screw will move 1/32 inch every time it revolves.

This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James.

The company bargained him down to $65 a screw—less than half of what they usually cost.

Choking, he managed with numbed fingers to screw his helmet on.

You want less concentration in banking—at least the type that will screw the little guy and imperil the economy?

In all honesty she may be handling it better, in terms of not letting it affect her as a person or screw up her life.