screw

IPA(Pronunciation)

/skɹuː/

Verb

transitive intransitive slang vulgar US dated imperative often

(transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw. / (transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）ねじを使って部品を接続・組み立てる、組み立てる / （他動詞・自動詞、俗語）性交する

What is this buttons?

Before you hang the door, screw the hinges to the cabinet.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ドアを掛ける前に、蝶番をキャビネットにねじで留めてください。

Details

Sense（1）

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

Sense（2）

(transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

Somebody told me … that she … acknowledged to him … that Nero … had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.

(From Rodebaugh v. Hollingsworth, May, 1855.)

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Sense（3）

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

Sense（4）

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

[…] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]

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