Synonyms of the word

screw

• n. A device that has a helical function.
• n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
• n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
• n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (slang) Salary, wages.
• n. (billiards) Backspin.
• n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
• n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
• n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
• n. An amphipod crustacean.
• n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
• v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
• v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
• v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
• v. (transitive) To contort.
• v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
• v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

ass

• n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
• n. (slang) A stupid person.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
• n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
• n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
• n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.

bang

• n. A sudden percussive noise.
• n. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
• n. An explosion.
• n. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
• n. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
• n. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
• n. (figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
• n. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
• n. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
• v. (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
• v. (slang, figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• v. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
• adv. Right, directly.
• adv. Precisely.
• adv. With a sudden impact.
• interj. a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound.
• n. (in the plural) Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bed

• n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
• n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• n. (heading) A layer or surface.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

bonk

• v. (informal) To strike or collide with something.
• v. (informal, chiefly Britain) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (skateboarding) To hit something with the front wheels of the skateboard, whilst in the air, this pre-dates…
• v. (snowboarding) To hit something (especially a tree) with one's snowboard, especially while in the air.
• v. (informal) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
• n. A bump on the head.
• n. Any minor collision or random meeting.
• n. (informal, chiefly Britain) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chicane

• n. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially…
• n. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
• n. Chicanery.
• v. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.

chouse

• v. (transitive) To cheat, to trick.
• n. One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
• n. A trick; a sham.
• n. A swindler.
• v. (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
• v. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
• v. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

coition

• n. Sexual intercourse.

coitus

• n. (formal or humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration.

congress

• n. (archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.
• n. A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
• n. (often capitalized: Congress) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the…
• n. An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
• n. Coitus; sexual intercourse.
• v. (intransitive) To assemble together.
• v. To meet in a congress.

copulate

• v. To engage in sexual intercourse.
• adj. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
• adj. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

copulation

• n. (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
• n. (uncountable) Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female;…

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

eff

• v. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

fuck

• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice…
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by “up”) To break; to destroy.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial) To play with; to tinker.
• v. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
• n. (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.
• interj. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
• adv. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
• part. (vulgar, slang, especially African American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative…

fucking

• v. present participle of fuck.
• n. (vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.
• n. (vulgar, figuratively) An act of mistreatment.
• adj. (vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically…
• adj. (vulgar) Offensive, annoying or worthless.
• adv. (vulgar) Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.
• infix. (vulgar) Alternative spelling of -fucking-.

gaoler

• n. (Britain) Archaic spelling of jailer.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

hump

• n. A mound of earth.
• n. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
• n. A speed hump.
• n. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
• n. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Britain, slang) A bad mood.
• n. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
• v. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

intercourse

• n. Communication, conversation.
• n. Dealings between countries.
• n. Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
• n. Sexual intercourse usually involving humans.
• v. (nonstandard, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

jailer

• n. One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.

jailor

• n. Alternative spelling of jailer.

jazz

• n. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American…
• n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
• n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
• n. Unspecified thing(s).
• n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
• n. Nonsense.
• v. To destroy.
• v. To play (jazz music).
• v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
• v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite.
• v. To complicate.
• v. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
• v. To distract/pester.

jockey

• n. One who rides racehorses competitively.
• n. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire.
• n. An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
• n. (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
• n. (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
• n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• n. (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
• v. To ride (a horse) in a race.
• v. To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.
• v. To cheat or trick.

keeper

• n. One who keeps something.
• n. (informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
• n. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard;…
• n. (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
• n. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits…
• n. (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after…
• n. One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
• n. A fruit or vegetable that keeps for some time without spoiling.

know

• v. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
• v. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
• v. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
• v. (transitive) To experience.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence…
• v. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
• v. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
• v. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
• v. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
• n. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.

lawman

• n. (law, historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
• n. (law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac…
• n. (law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
• n. (rare) A man of the law: a lawyer.
• n. (informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.

love

• n. (uncountable) Strong affection.
• n. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
• n. (euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
• n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members,…
• n. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
• n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To lust for.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
• n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

mate

• n. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
• n. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A friend, usually of the same sex.
• n. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) a colloquial "sir"; an informal and friendly term of address…
• n. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's…
• n. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
• n. (nautical) A first mate.
• n. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
• n. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
• n. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
• v. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
• v. (intransitive) To copulate.
• v. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
• v. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
• v. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
• v. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
• v. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
• v. (transitive, aeronautics, space) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can…
• n. (chess) Short for checkmate.
• v. (intransitive) To win a game of chess by putting the opponent in checkmate.
• v. To confuse; to confound.
• n. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
• n. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea.

nookie

• n. (slang) sexual intercourse or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
• n. (US) A pacifier.

nooky

• n. Alternative spelling of nookie.
• adj. Like a nook; small and secluded or cosy.

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

propeller

• n. One who, or that which, propels.
• n. A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially…
• n. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.

propellor

• n. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of propeller.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

revolve

• v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
• v. To turn on an axis.
• v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
• v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

rotate

• v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
• v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
• v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
• v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
• adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

screwing

• v. present participle of screw.
• n. The act by which something is screwed.
• n. (slang, vulgar) sexual intercourse.

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

shag

• n. Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
• n. Coarse shredded tobacco.
• n. A type of rough carpet pile.
• v. (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
• adj. (obsolete) hairy; shaggy.
• n. Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common…
• v. (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
• v. (transitive, vulgar slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (India, transitive, vulgar slang) To masturbate.
• v. To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
• v. To perform the dance called the shag.
• n. A swing dance.
• n. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (Canada, Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

shtup

• v. To push.
• v. (slang) To have sex with.

tighten

• v. (transitive) To make tighter.
• v. (intransitive) To become tighter.
• v. (economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
• v. (economics) To raise short-term interest rates.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

turnkey

• adj. ready to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate…
• n. (now archaic) A warder or jailer/gaoler; keeper of the keys in a prison.
• v. to supply a turnkey product; to supply something fully assembled and ready to use.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.