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1. Someone who guards prisoners
   - prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler [Brit], turnkey [archaic]
    
2. A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
    
3. A propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
   - screw propeller
    
4. A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
    
5. [vulgar] Slang for sexual intercourse
   - make whoopee

1. [vulgar] Have sexual intercourse with
   "This student screws everyone in her dorm"
   - sleep together, love, make out, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it, be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk [Brit], make whoopee
    
2. Turn like a screw
    
3. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
   "drive in screws or bolts"
   - drive in
    
4. Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
   "Screw the bottle cap on"
    
5. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   - cheat, chouse, shaft, chicane, jockey

Derived forms: screws, screwed, screwing

Type of: beat, beat out, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulate, copulation, couple, crush, fasten, fastener, fastening, fixing, go around, holdfast, inclined plane, intercourse, keeper, law officer, lawman, mate, pair, peace officer, propeller, propellor, relation, revolve, rotate, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, shell, tighten, trounce, vanquish

Antonym: unscrew

Part of: outboard, outboard motor, ship

Encyclopedia: Screw