Definitions for screws

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screws screw

Spelling: [skroo]

IPA: /skru/

Screws is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in screws (cerssw).

Definitions for screws

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 screws

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 screws

And as for the screws, Bobbidge, of the Carbineers, will take them both for 50.'

The screws he possessed were too large, and he had no hammer.

The screws should be tightened so that the rudders will stay at any angle at which they are put.

They wanted the screws put on; but I intended to handle Vandeman in my own way.

Now fasten in your engine; two screws through the bed-plate will do it.

My surgeon told me my bones were so soft he could barely install the screws.

The company had repossessed some of its screws after one U.S. distributor, Spinal Solutions LLC, stopped paying its bills.

She begged hospital staff to let her keep the rods and screws.

He told CIR that she did not ask for samples of screws or talk about implants.

The sales rep said he gave Harris screws to take back to the FDA district office in Ontario, California.