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screw

a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head

a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air

a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole

tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions; "Screw the bottle cap on"

cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in screws or bolts"

turn like a screw

Synonyms:

• Procrustean bed,
• airscrew,
• anamorphism,
• anamorphosis,
• apply pressure,
• articulate,
• ask,
• ask for,
• asymmetry,
• badger,
• ball,
• batten,
• batten down,
• be intimate,
• beat,
• bed of Procrustes,
• begrudge,
• beguile of,
• bend,
• bilk,
• blackmail,
• bleed,
• bleed white,
• bollix up,
• bolt,
• boot,
• botch,
• buckle,
• bugger up,
• bull,
• bunco,
• bungle,
• burn,
• butt,
• button,
• call for,
• call up,
• call upon,
• challenge,
• cheat,
• chisel,
• chouse,
• chouse out of,
• circle,
• circulate,
• circumrotate,
• circumvolute,
• cirrus,
• claim,
• clamor for,
• clasp,
• cleat,
• clip,
• coerce,
• cog,
• cog the dice,
• cohabit,
• coil,
• come together,
• commandant,
• commit adultery,
• compel,
• con,
• constrain,
• contort,
• contortion,
• copulate,
• corkscrew,
• couple,
• cover,
• cozen,
• crank,
• crib,
• crimp,
• crimple,
• crinkle,
• crook,
• crookedness,
• crumple,
• cry for,
• curl,
• curlicue,
• custodian,
• deform,
• defraud,
• demand,
• destroy,
• detorsion,
• deviation,
• diddle,
• disproportion,
• distort,
• distortion,
• do,
• do in,
• do out of,
• dovetail,
• draw on,
• driver,
• euchre,
• evolute,
• exact,
• exploit,
• extort,
• famish,
• fan,
• finagle,
• flam,
• flee,
• fleece,
• flimflam,
• fly,
• fob,
• force,
• force from,
• fornicate,
• frig,
• fuck,
• fuck up,
• fudge,
• gaoler,
• gnarl,
• go around,
• go round,
• gouge,
• governor,
• grudge,
• guard,
• guardian,
• gull,
• gyp,
• gyrate,
• gyre,
• hasp,
• have,
• have sex,
• have sexual relations,
• helix,
• hinge,
• hitch,
• hocus,
• hocus-pocus,
• hold up,
• hook,
• imbalance,
• impeller,
• impose,
• increase,
• indent,
• influence,
• insist,
• intort,
• involute,
• iron heel,
• irregularity,
• issue an ultimatum,
• jailer,
• jam,
• joint,
• keeper,
• kink,
• knot,
• lank,
• latch,
• lay,
• levy,
• levy blackmail,
• lie with,
• live upon nothing,
• lock,
• lopsidedness,
• louse up,
• make a demand,
• make it with,
• make love,
• make off,
• make out,
• mate,
• meander,
• mishandle,
• mismanage,
• miter,
• mortise,
• mount,
• muddle,
• mulct,
• nail,
• oblige,
• order,
• order up,
• overcharge,
• overprice,
• overtax,
• pack the deal,
• paddle wheel,
• peg,
• pigeon,
• pin,
• pinch,
• pinch pennies,
• pirouette,
• piston,
• pivot,
• place an order,
• practice fraud upon,
• press,
• pressure,
• principal keeper,
• prison guard,
• profiteer,
• prop,
• propellant,
• propeller,
• propulsor,
• pry loose from,
• put in requisition,
• quirk,
• rabbet,
• rack,
• raise,
• ream,
• rend,
• rend from,
• require,
• requisition,
• revolve,
• rimple,
• ringlet,
• rip,
• rip from,
• rivet,
• roll,
• rook,
• rotate,
• rotor,
• round,
• ruckle,
• ruin,
• rumple,
• run,
• scallop,
• scam,
• scamp,
• scamper,
• scant,
• scarf,
• scarpines,
• scoot,
• scrape,
• screw propeller,
• screw up,
• screwing,
• scrimp,
• scroll,
• scrunch,
• sell gold bricks,
• serpentine,
• serve,
• service,
• sew,
• sexual intercourse,
• shake down,
• shave,
• shortchange,
• skedaddle,
• skewer,
• skimp,
• skin,
• skip,
• sleep with,
• slink,
• snake,
• snap,
• snatch from,
• soak,
• spare,
• spin,
• spiral,
• spring,
• squeeze,
• stack the cards,
• staple,
• starve,
• stick,
• sting,
• stint,
• stitch,
• strain,
• stretch,
• summon,
• surcharge,
• swindle,
• swing,
• swirl,
• swivel,
• tack,
• take,
• take a dive,
• tap,
• tear from,
• tendril,
• thimblerig,
• throw a fight,
• thumbscrew,
• toggle,
• torsion,
• tortuosity,
• turbine,
• turn,
• turn a pirouette,
• turn around,
• turn awry,
• turn round,
• turnkey,
• twin screws,
• twine,
• twirl,
• twist,
• twist and turn,
• unsymmetry,
• victimize,
• volute,
• volution,
• vortex,
• wamble,
• warden,
• warder,
• warn,
• warp,
• wedge,
• wheel,
• whirl,
• whorl,
• wind,
• worm,
• wrench,
• wrench from,
• wrest,
• wring,
• wring from,
• wrinkle,
• writhe,
• zipper