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Tricky pitch
Answer for the clue "Tricky pitch ", 9 letters:
screwball
Alternative clues for the word screwball
Word definitions for screwball in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy , half-baked , softheaded ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"eccentric person," 1933, U.S. slang, earlier as a type of erratic baseball pitch (1928), from a still earlier name for a type of delivery in cricket (1866), from screw (n.) + ball (n.1). Screwball comedy is attested from 1938, in reference to Carole Lombard. ...
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.