screws

Synonyms

screwing jazz propeller extort jailer fastener gaoler rotor turnkey jailor prison guard get laid piece of ass nooky piece of tail
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Phrases with the word

put the screws on put the screws to put screws to screws up

Examples

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. Anton Chekhov

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. James Ellroy

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

They screwed with democracy. I'm not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back. Alastair Reynolds

After every revolution there is an interregnum, in which communities run themselves and all is well, and then the new regime comes in and screws things up. Kim Stanley Robinson

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard. Bill Goldberg