How to pronounce “screw”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A device that has a helical function.
• 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, archaic) Salary, wages.
• (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
• (dated) A small quamtity of a material such as salt or tobacco wrapped in twist of paper.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• (ambitransitive, 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. [from early to mid 20th c.]
• (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
• (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.

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