screw

Plural: screws

Noun

someone who guards prisoners
a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
slang for sexual intercourse
A device that has a helical function.
A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
A device that has a helical function.
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.
A device that has a helical function.
A ship's propeller.
A device that has a helical function.
An Archimedes screw.
A device that has a helical function.
A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
A prison guard.
An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
A casual sexual partner.
Salary, wages.
Backspin.
A small quamtity of a material such as salt or tobacco wrapped in twist of paper.
An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
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.
An amphipod crustacean.
Rheumatism.

Verb

Verb Forms: screwed, screwing, screws

To attach or fasten with a screw; to twist or turn.
have sexual intercourse with
turn like a screw
cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- "drive in screws or bolts"
tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- "Screw the bottle cap on"
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
To contort.
To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
To screw back.
To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
To leave; to go away; to scram.
Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.

Examples

Before potato crisps were sold pre-salted each packet would contain a screw of salt.
He tried to SCREW in a new strategy but it just didn’t hold up in the game.
Screw him, let's run.
Screw the homework for now.
Screw those jerks, and screw their stupid rules!
the sand screw
the skeleton screw (Caprella)

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.

Synonyms

ass, bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, cheat, chicane, chouse, do it, drive in, eff, fuck, fucking, gaoler, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jailer, jailor, jazz, jockey, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, prison guard, roll in the hay, screw propeller, screwing, shaft, shag, shtup, sleep together, sleep with, turnkey, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, accouple, affix, assemble, associate, attach, ball, bauf, be with, beep, bewed, bind, boff, boink, bone, boom-boom, bugger, clasp, clinch, coit, coitize, combine, conglomerate, conglutinate, conjoin, connect, construct, couple, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, enjoy, entwine, expletive deleted, fay, feague, feck, fill, fix, forget, frack, frak, frick, frig, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, graft, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hitch, hook, inosculate, interlink, jape, join, joint, jump, jump someone's bones, knit, knob, knock, knock off, knot, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, link, love up, make, marry, mount, nail, occupy, penetrate, piece together, piecen, pinion, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, put together, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sack, sard, schlong, screw, screw over, screw up, season, seduce, see to, service, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, splice, stallionize, swive, take, tap, to hell with, tup, twist, unite, wap, wed, writhe, yoke

Antonyms

unscrew

Scrabble Score: 10

screw: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
screw: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
screw: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

screw: valid Words With Friends Word