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Tricky pitch
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screwball
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Wikipedia
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Screwball is a New York City hip hop group, with members Hostyle, KL, Blaq Poet , & Solo. Their debut Y2K The Album was released in 2000 on Tommy Boy Records . The album yielded two singles; "H-O-S-T-Y-L-E" and the surprising and virtually unbroadcastable ...
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. ...
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 ▪ ...
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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context originally US English) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird. n. 1 (context baseball English) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed ...
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.