ALL meanings of screw
screw
S s - idioms screw put the screws on, to compel by exerting pressure on; use coercion on; force: They kept putting the screws on him for more money. 1
- noun Definition of screw in Technology (jargon) (MIT) A failure, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehaviour caused by a bug or misfeature. This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. 1
- verb screw If you screw something somewhere or if it screws somewhere, you fix it in place by twisting it round and round. 0
- verb screw If you screw something such as a piece of paper into a ball, you squeeze it or twist it tightly so that it is in the shape of a ball. 0
- verb screw If you screw your face or your eyes into a particular expression, you tighten the muscles of your face to form that expression, for example because you are in pain or because the light is too bright. 0
- verb screw If someone screws someone else or if two people screw, they have sex together. 0
- verb screw Some people use screw in expressions such as screw you or screw that to show that they are not concerned about someone or something or that they feel contempt for them. 0
- verb screw If someone says that they have been screwed, they mean that someone else has cheated them, especially by getting money from them dishonestly. 0
- verb screw If someone screws something, especially money, out of you, they get it from you by putting pressure on you. 0
- countable noun screw Prisoners often refer to prison officers as screws. 0
- countable noun screw A screw is a propeller on a ship or an aircraft. 0
- noun screw a device used for fastening materials together, consisting of a threaded and usually tapered shank that has a slotted head by which it may be rotated so as to cut its own thread as it bores through the material 0
- noun screw a threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded cylindrical hole; bolt 0
- noun screw a thread in a cylindrical hole corresponding with that on the bolt or screw with which it is designed to engage 0
- noun screw anything resembling a screw in shape or spiral form 0
- noun screw a twisting movement of or resembling that of a screw 0
- noun screw a stroke in which the cue ball recoils or moves backward after striking the object ball, made by striking the cue ball below its centre 0
- noun screw the motion resulting from this stroke 0
- noun screw a prison guard 0
- noun screw salary, wages, or earnings 0
- noun screw a small amount of salt, tobacco, etc, in a twist of paper 0
- noun screw a person who is mean with money 0
- noun screw an old, unsound, or worthless horse 0
- noun screw force or compulsion (esp in the phrase put the screws on) 0
- noun screw sexual intercourse 0
- verb screw to rotate (a screw or bolt) so as to drive it into or draw it out of a material 0
- verb screw to cut a screw thread in (a rod or hole) with a tap or die or on a lathe 0
- verb screw to turn or cause to turn in the manner of a screw 0
- verb screw to attach or fasten with a screw or screws 0
- verb screw to take advantage of; cheat 0
- verb screw to distort or contort 0
- verb screw to impart a screw to (a ball) 0
- verb screw to coerce or force out of; extort 0
- verb screw to have sexual intercourse (with) 0
- verb screw to burgle 0
- noun screw a mechanical device for fastening things together, consisting essentially of a cylindrical or conical piece of metal threaded evenly around its outside surface with an advancing spiral ridge and commonly having a slotted head: it penetrates only by being turned, as with a screwdriver 0
- noun screw the internal thread, or helical groove, as of a nut, into which a male screw, bolt, etc. can be turned 0
- noun screw the act or an instance of turning such a screw 0
- noun screw any of various devices operating or threaded like a screw, as a jackscrew or screw propeller 0
- noun screw anything that spirals or twists like the thread of a screw 0
- noun screw the act of spiraling, twisting, or moving like this 0
- noun screw a small amount of tobacco, salt, etc. in a twist of paper 0
- noun screw a stingy person; miser 0
- noun screw a crafty bargainer 0
- noun screw a worn-out horse 0
- noun screw a salary 0
- noun screw an act or instance of sexual intercourse 0
- noun screw a person with whom one engages in sexual intercourse, often, specif., one of specified competence 0
- verb transitive screw to twist; turn; tighten 0
- verb transitive screw to fasten, make secure, tighten, insert, etc. with or as with a screw or screws 0