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screwball
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot , crank , nut , nut case , nutcase , fruitcake ] a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A screwball is a baseball pitch. Screwball or Screwballs may also refer to: Screwball (group) , an American hip-hop group Screwball, nickname of George Beurling (1921-1948), Canada's top flying ace of the Second World War Screwball (ice cream) , a frozen ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES screwball comedy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN comedy ▪ A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ ...
Usage examples of screwball.
In addition to Doan and Carstairs, he created such series sleuths as Ben Shaley, Doc Flame, Bail Bond Dodd, the fudge, Jim Daniels, and another brilliantly screwball private eye, Max Latin.
There were so many unpopular and nonrespectable ideas that he espoused, that he earned himself such epithets as screwball, crackpot and worse—with the consequent loss of friends .
They should quit reading those damned little squibs in the popular science magazines, for starters -- I get enough screwball mail as it is.
I yearn to be the instrument through which God reunites you screwballs.
To do any of those things, I should start by enchanting her, fascinating her with my wit, deliver some of those fine lines movie stars toss off with such ease in screwball comedies.