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screw-driver

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screw⋅driv⋅er

[skroo-drahy-ver]
–noun
1. a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
2. a mixed drink made with vodka and orange juice.

Origin:
1770–80; screw + driver
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screwdriver  (n.)
"tool for driving screws," 1779, from screw (n.) + driver. Meaning "cocktail made from vodka and orange juice" is recorded from 1956. (Screwed/screwy had a sense of "drunk" since 19c.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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