screw
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- n someone who guards prisoners
- n a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- n a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- n a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- n slang for sexual intercourse
- v have sexual intercourse with
- v turn like a screw
- v cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
drive in screws or bolts - v tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- v defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- Before you automatically reject that screw-cap bottle of wine as cheap and tacky, consider the fact that screw caps may be doing a better job of preserving wine than traditional .
- Good wines now come with screw caps, pop tops and paper.
- Depending on which statistics you believe, the number of Americans killed by medical screw-ups is somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 every year--the eighth leading cause of death .