screwdriver

US/ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/

nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,309 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: screwdrivers

A screwdriver is the tool you turn to put screws in or take them out. A shaped tip, a shaft, and a handle you can grip.

The tip is what matters, and the two common kinds are flat-head and cross-head, which the trade calls Phillips. An electric one saves a great deal of wrist. Every toolbox has several and the right one is never there. The word also names a cocktail of vodka and orange juice, supposedly because oil workers stirred it with the tool they had to hand.

Definitions of screwdriver

1nounscrewdriverA tool with a shaped tip for turning screws.A2+
“He needed a smaller screwdriver for the hinge.”

Where it comes from

From screw + driver. Compound of screw + driver.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Around the House, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 5 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

screwdriver in the wild

Throughout the programme, there have been many different versions of the sonic screwdriver, as with subsequent Doctors the design of it was changed.
Sonic screwdriver
The Twelfth Doctor loses his sonic screwdriver to the creator of the Daleks, Davros, after lending it to him when he was a child.
Sonic screwdriver
A screwdriver (in North American English) is an alcoholic highball drink made with orange juice and vodka.
Screwdriver (cocktail)
A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, used for turning screws.
Screwdriver
A popular generic name for the drive is star, as in star screwdriver or star bits.
Torx

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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