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screw
noun- a prison officer UK, 1812
Possibly from an obsolete sense of “screw” (a skeleton key), hence a “turnkey” or “warder”, or perhaps from “thumbscrew” (an instrument of torture used in C17 prisons). - When the screw came, I’d spit in his face. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 68, 1953
- They shut me back in my cell and early in the morning the screw whacked my feet with his bat and woke me up. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 112, 1955
- [T]he money which his friends, outside, will bung the screws to pay for his snout [cigarettes] and other little creature comforts. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 52, 1956
- “What do you mean I’m the prisoner?,” said the screw in amazement. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 103, 1958
- Several prisoners stood in the doorway, watching him. “Somebody call the screw.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 228, 1960
- We clambered out and stood in line to have our handcuffs removed. Two “screws” started at each end of the line unlocking the cuffs. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 49, 1969
- [E]very screw here is borstal [juvenile offenders’ prison]. Every one of us. — Scum, 1979
- But one day these screws got to me. — Raging Bull, 1980
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 102, 1996
- an act of sexual intercourse US, 1929
- If you don’t like sleeping, and don’t want a screw / Then you should take lots of amphetamine too — The Fugs, New Amphetamine Shreik, 1965
- After a month of these cheap screws she finally told me she had $25,000 in her personal savings account. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 155, 1972
- a sexual partner, potential or actual, of either gender, objectified and gauged UK, 1937
- — Alen Richter, Sexual slang, p. 193, 1993
- a wage UK, 1858
- — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 245, 1945
- I pay his screw. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 63, 1959
- The staff drew their screw in golden sovereigns, and the lesser contributors in silver coin. — Norman Lindsay, Bohemians at the Bulletin, p. 4, 1965
- Oh the young bloke is getting a good screw, and he likes it. — Harvey E. Ward, Down Under Without Blunder, p. 22, 1967
- a salary NEW ZEALAND
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 89, 1984
- a mischievous scheme TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1935
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- a look AUSTRALIA, 1907
- What about nicking in and having a screw through the key hole? — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 138, 1945
- So I hid in the shadows and had a screw at the compound. — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 9, 1969
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 88, 1977
▶ have a screw loose
to be or become eccentric, crazy or insane UK, 1833- [A]fter all your mates telling you that you had a screw loose. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 70, 1999
- Everyone seems to have at least one screw loose[.] — The Guardian, 3 April 2003
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