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Crazy (person)
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screwball
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screwball \Screwball\, n. an eccentric or crazy person; an oddball. a baseball pitch that curves in the direction opposite to that of a curve ball. adj. eccentric; zany; crazy.
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 ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A screwball is a baseball pitch that is thrown so as to break in the opposite direction of a slider or curveball . Depending on the pitcher's arm angle, the ball may also have a sinking action. Carl Hubbell was one of the most renowned screwball pitchers ...
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 ▪ ...
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.