Definition of "screw" in Anglais

noun

1. A device that has a helical function.

2. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.

3. (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.

   • And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.

4. (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.

5. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.

6. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.

7. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.

8. (slang, archaic) Salary, wages.

9. (snooker, billiards) Backspin.

10. (dated) A small quamtity of a material such as salt or tobacco wrapped in twist of paper.

    • Before potato crisps were sold pre-salted each packet would contain a screw of salt.

11. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.

12. (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.

13. An amphipod crustacean.

    • the skeleton screw (Caprella)
    • the sand screw

14. (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.

verb

1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

2. (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

3. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

4. (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.

5. (transitive) To contort.

6. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.

7. (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.

8. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

9. (intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.

10. (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.