screw-on
Americanadjective
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attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
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(of an earring) held on the earlobe by a small screwlike post with a disk at the tip.
Etymology
Origin of screw-on
First recorded in 1925–30; adj. use of verb phrase screw on
Example Sentences
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Some of the inn’s most expensive bottles—from the winemaker Domaine de la Romanée-Conti—had been snatched, replaced by bad replicas with screw-on caps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The Klean Kanteen is the easiest to clean of the bottles we tested and can be used with a sippy top, sports cap, or screw-on top.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2018
You get a 3.5mm termination and a screw-on 6.35mm adapter.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2018
The embossed glass Mason jar comes with a custom screw-on collar, strainer cap and lid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
The surest preventive against falling off is to have screw-on gauges.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
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