SCREWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does screwing mean? 

• SCREWING (noun)
  The noun SCREWING has 1 sense:

1. slang for sexual intercourse

  Familiarity information: SCREWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCREWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slang for sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup

Hypernyms ("screwing" is a kind of...):

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Derivation:

screw (have sexual intercourse with)

 Context examples 

“That's tellings, my blessed infant,” she retorted, tapping her nose again, screwing up her face, and twinkling her eyes like an imp of supernatural intelligence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Something seemed to affect his imagination, for he put his fingers to his ears and shut his eyes, screwing them up tightly just as a small boy does when his face is being soaped.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)