screw

IPA: skrˈu

A device that has a helical function.
A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
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.
(nautical) A ship's propeller.
An Archimedes screw.
A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
(slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
(slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
(US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
(vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
(vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
(slang) Salary, wages.
(billiards) Backspin.
(slang) A small packet of tobacco.
(dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
(mathematics) 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.
(informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.

(transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
(transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
(transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
(transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
(transitive) To contort.
(soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
(billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
(US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
(intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.
(colloquial, transitive, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.

Examples of "screw" in Sentences

Bureau chief Small chided me for using the word screw on the air, which had elicited complaints from the Bible Belt.
The fixing of the screw is the end result of intelligent guidance coupled with the use of the appropriate enabling tools.
I shouldn't say police scandal, because -- we don't believe the government of Germany is culpable for what we call a screw-up.
Make sure the length of the screw is just enough to engage the BB shell but does not protrude up like a snorkel, keeping the water from draining out.
So if you magnetize the screw from a meat grinder so the magnetic flux is denser at the top than it is at the bottom, the ferrofluid will climb the screw like staircase.
One dramatic consequence of this steady tightening of the screw is the increasing difficulties encountered by Iran Air, the state airline, in refuelling its planes in Europe.
Based near Bordeaux, WIT is a recently founded firm that packages wine in screw-cap glass tubes containing 4, 5, 6 or 10 centiliters of wine to be sent out as gifts, samples or as "the business card you can drink."
BTW, for those of you who have noticed that I use the term screw up often when discussing Obama's policies, if you look at election history the incumbent party only loses when the voters perceive they have screwed up.