screw
2
9.9
- noun
- /skruː/
- Archaic
- Prison rules, prison screws prisoners apart from the celebrities.
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Watch on YouTubeBut people have who run strange ways, the cons or the screws, Right.
- But people have who run strange ways, the cons or the screws, Right.
- What it be, The staff, the guards, the screws, whatever.
- Anyway, so to after being beat and beat and beat like Portland, I was beat to fuck by the screws.
- And the one time it screws this geezer, big African blokes wrapped his hands up, attacked a screw.
- It's like people cracking on with the screws parties all the time.
- And the reason why jail was sweet is because screws could have all the jobs done.
- Prison rules, prison screws prisoners apart from the celebrities.
Examples
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Shut up, you lousy screw.
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The screws thought it was because I was always clowning around.
Fiction book (2001) -
You ain't talking to a screw now.
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There was this screw what really had it in for me, And that geezer was top of my list.
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Aye, right, so, we are the cons... and they are the screws.
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I believe you, Warden, but I don't trust your screws.
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The screws are watching.
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I was only concerned with men being stripped of their dignity... cons and screws.
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Every other day, one was passed to him through the bars by a screw.
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The screw took pride in his professional indifference, courteous yet dismissive.
Synonyms
33
2.5
A person who watches prisoners in a jail or prison
17
3.0
A person who guards prisoners in a jail or prison
2
4.2
A person who guards prisoners in a jail
1
9.9
A person who locks and guards prisoners in a jail
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.0
A raised spiral on a screw or bolt makes it hold things when you turn it
- Specialized
1
3.7
A metal screw with the same width along its length used with a nut or in a threaded hole
- Specialized
1
3.9
A screw with a cross-shaped slot in its head that you turn with a matching screwdriver
- Specialized
1
6.4
A machine that uses a long turned metal rod to squeeze liquid from solid things
- Specialized
1
5.3
A device with angled blades that turns to push a boat or plane forward
- US
1
6.8
A large strong screw with a square or six-sided head driven with a wrench into wood to hold heavy things
1
3.8
A tool with one movable jaw that you move by turning a screw to hold nuts or bolts
- Specialized
1
5.6
A tool that lifts heavy things by turning a screw, often used to raise a car
- Specialized
1
6.6
A screw with a finished head that you screw into a threaded hole to hold machine parts together
- Specialized
1
6.3
A screw with a six-sided hole in the head that you turn with a hex key
- Specialized
1
5.5
A small metal part with flat side pieces you can turn by hand to hold things together
- Specialized
1
9.8
A dry-land shrub or small tree with spiral seed pods from the US Southwest and Mexico
1
9.3
A tropical tree with strong roots that grow above the ground, long narrow leaves, and conelike edible fruit
- Archaic
A long round object with rotating fins that measures how fast a ship moves in water
- Specialized
A kind of orchid that has tall stems and a spiral of small white, sweet-smelling flowers
- Specialized
A sweet spiral seed pod from a dry-land tree that animals eat or people grind into meal
- Specialized
A group of woody plants including Pandanus and similar species with long fibrous leaves
- Australian
A tropical plant with long strong leaves people use to weave mats and hats
Surface Forms
Etymology
The British slang screw for a prison guard comes from older informal use and may be linked to the idea of someone who 'tightens' or controls things; a useful image is a guard who keeps rules tight, like turning a screw.