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Screwing

Screwing \Screw"ing\, a. & n. from Screw, v. t.

Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

Screwing

Screw \Screw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screwed; p. pr. & vb. n. Screwing.]

  1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.

  2. To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.

    But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
    --Shak.

  3. Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.

    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.
    --swift.

  4. To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.

    He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
    --Dryden.

  5. To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. [Cant, American Colleges] To screw out, to press out; to extort. To screw up,

    1. to force; to bring by violent pressure.
      --Howell.

    2. to damage by unskillful effort; to bungle; to botch; to mess up.

    3. [intrans] to fail by unskillful effort, usu. causing unpleasant consequences. To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting. Screw around

      1. to act aimlessly or unproductively.

      2. screw around with, to operate or make changes on (a machine or device) without expert knowledge; to fiddle with.

      3. [Colloq.]commit adultery; to be sexually promiscuous.

Wiktionary
screwing

n. 1 The act by which something is screwed. 2 (context slang vulgar English) sexual intercourse vb. (present participle of screw English)

WordNet
screwing

n. slang terms for sexual intercourse [syn: fuck, fucking, screw, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup]

Usage examples of "screwing".

You enjoyed playing the badass in training, screwing with our instructors.

When screwing the joints together, if the ends of the rod are pressed up to each other they become connected by the same motion.

The dirt may be removed from the screw-holes by screwing a piece of soft wood into them.

Dog-shit offshore rig puking your guts out over the side after eating a big sweet ham that the cooking steward had been screwing all month.

Operators in every plant talked about women, or screwing, or women, or cars, or screwing in cars.

Those screwing contractors been trying to fix and patch up shit and I had to earn five weeks of overtime in two weeks.

He would be praying his ass all the way to hell, just like this screwing state!

It seemed like they were going down this screwing River Road all the way to the mouth of the Mississippi!

They followed the high school jocks, because they saw a flash of weaponry, amid the monstrous coalition of state troopers, families, girded in three lanes bumper-to bumper like it was the screwing SEC title in the offing.

Telling them to get the screw home asking them what was wrong with their screwing parents!

The teenage orgies, boys and girls screwing, fighting and beer guzzling with a medicine kit of drugs from the various pharmacies.

When he was a kid in Walker, he and his sister were a fooling around and before he knew it, he done been screwing her for almost 9 months.

But his screwing religious brother in law kept telling him to go with him to get laying hands on at Reverend Jenkins ministry.

She turned into the driveway and cursed River Bend Nuclear Plant and all the screwing chemistry sets of the gawds.

She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as fast as her nimble little feet would carry her.