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UK
/skɹˈuː/
]
[ US /ˈskɹu/ ]
[ US /ˈskɹu/ ]
VERB
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
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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 -
have sexual intercourse with
Were you ever intimate with this man?
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve - turn like a screw
NOUN
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- 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
- someone who guards prisoners
- slang for sexual intercourse
How To Use screw In A Sentence
- Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
- Dab a little wood glue into the hole, insert the dowel, and drive a 5/8-inch or 3/4-inch screw through the back of the wood to secure the dowel.
- The interest rates are sky-high, and if you lose control just a couple of times you're pretty much screwed.
- These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
- There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
- And all of this is done without a sonic screwdriver. Times, Sunday Times
- Finishing the mission so our troops will not have died in vain is the most screwed up thing I have ever heard. Think Progress » 9%.
- What screwball idea would they come up with next?
- My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.