Meaning of screw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device that has a helical function.
2. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
3. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
4. A ship's propeller.
5. An Archimedes screw.
6. A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
7. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
8. A prison guard.
   derogatory, slang
9. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
   derogatory, slang
10. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
    US, dated, slang
11. Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
    slang, vulgar
12. A casual sexual partner.
    slang, vulgar
13. Salary, wages.
    archaic, slang
14. Backspin.
15. A small quantity of a material such as salt or tobacco wrapped in twist of paper.
    dated
16. An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
    dated
17. A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
18. An amphipod crustacean.
19. Rheumatism.
    in-plural, informal, with-definite-article

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“They both wedged up in his cell and refused to come out. They were hurling abuse at the screws on the other side of the door. As a result they were both shipped out to another jail the following day.”

“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.”

“Why can't I get just one screw? / Believe me, I'd know what to do / But something won't let me make love to you”

““Not for God's sake, for Papá's sake. He's the one who gave Mami a good screw, and then you popped out. Or did you think you were a child of the Immaculate Conception, like the Baby Jesus?”

“A few couples would let selected doggers join in, with the lucky ones managing to get a screw.”

“As she sucked the nicotine deeply into her lungs, she closed her eyes and leaned back against the headboard, enjoying the pleasurable buzz that the combination of a good screw—well, a decent screw—coupled with the nicotine gave.”

“If I don't go back to my boy friend he'll be as mad as hell. He's a sulky brute, but Christ, he's a good screw.”

“"Swear it!" Kathleen screamed. "Let her know that she's just another screw. Because, darling, that's all you are. So go on, tell her!"”

“She was just a girl, like any of the girls he had had so easily, just another screw.”

“Mary was Eli's favorite screw because she was clean, pretty, a good mother, funny, and alway was able to make herself available for their twice a week fucks as easily as he was.”

““I’ll speak to Mrs. Dorman when she comes back, and see if I can’t come to terms with her,” I said. “Perhaps she wants a rise in her screw. It will be all right. Let’s walk up to the church.””

“A certain amount of "screw" is as necessary for a man as for a billiard-ball.”

“Before potato crisps were sold pre-salted each packet would contain a screw of salt.”

“3 Screws and a Pipe”

“[…] a gentleman of leisure, who enjoyed himself on a couple of spavined screws […]; both of them, as Stephen said, looked lonely without a gig behind them.”

“the skeleton screw (Caprella)”

“the sand screw”

“She didn't like my mother, so she made a wax doll and stuck thorns into its legs, and my mother had the screws (rheumatism) in her legs ever since.”

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