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- (noun): A device that has a helical function.
- (noun): The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- (noun): A prison guard.
- (noun): An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- (noun): An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
- (noun): Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (noun): A casual sexual partner.
- (noun): Salary, wages.
- (noun): Backspin.
- (noun): A small packet of tobacco.
- (noun): An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
- (noun): 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.
- (noun): An amphipod crustacean.
- (noun): (in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (verb): To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (verb): To have sexual intercourse with.
- (verb): To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (verb): To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (verb): To contort.
- (verb): To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (verb): To screw back.
- (verb): To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
- the skeleton screw (Caprella); the sand screw