Crossword clues for screamer
screamer
- Credit claimed by bowler for sensational headline
- One yelling when son’s given milk substitute
- One audibly scared of singular substitute for milk
- Noisy lover is briefly on top, then on back
- Fearsome shot with bowler receiving credit?
- Best in series!
- Headline: “Millions trapped in hopeless careers”
- Hard-hit line drive
- Two-year-old, at times
- Sensational newspaper headline — mere scar (anag)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screamer \Scream"er\ (skr[=e]m"[~e]r), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimid[ae], and the suborder Palamede[ae]. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.
2. Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy.
3. An exclamation mark. [Printer's Slang]
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly. 2 Any bird in the taxonomic family ''Anhimidae'', endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet. 3 (context obsolete US hunting English) A healthy, vigorous animal.John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms — SCREAMER. A bouncing fellow or girl. This, like the word ''roarer'', is one of the words transferred from animals to men by the hunters of the West. 4 A healthy, vigorous person. 5 Something exceptionally good. 6 (context sports cricket English) A difficult catch. 7 (context sports baseball English) A very hard hit. 8 (context sports Australian rules football English) A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball). 9 (context sports soccer English) a powerful shot.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The screamers are a small clade of birds (Anhimidae). For a long time, they were thought to be most closely related to the Galliformes because of similar bills, but they are instead more closely related to ducks (family Anatidae), most closely to the magpie goose (which some DNA evidence suggests are closer to screamers than to ducks). The clade is exceptional within the living birds in lacking uncinate processes of ribs. The screamers are represented by three species, the horned screamer (Anhima cornuta), the southern screamer or crested screamer (Chauna torquata) and the northern screamer or black-necked screamer (Chauna chavaria). A penis is absent in the males, and the birds' skin has a layer about a quarter of an inch thick that is filled with small bubbles of air, which produce a crackling sound when pressed.
A screamer is a descriptive name for a circus march, in particular, an upbeat march intended to stir up the audience during the show.
Screamer is a family of bird species.
Screamer may also refer to:
Screamer is an arcade style racing game for MS-DOS. The game shares some graphical and gameplay style with Namco's popular Ridge Racer. The game featured texture mapped polygon-modelled tracks and cars. Software rendering was used in the game, due to the game's release before the widespread adoption of 3D graphics cards, unlike Screamer's three sequels Screamer 2, Screamer Rally and Screamer 4x4, that all utilized 3D hardware (in the case of Screamer 2, after a patch was released). As a result, Screamer was one of the early games to really require a Pentium processor to run at full speed, particularly in SVGA mode.
EA's racing title The Need for Speed was released on the PC around the same time as Screamer.
The game's music was composed by Allister Brimble.
Usage examples of "screamer".
Its blue-uniformed Screamer Pickup Squads patrolled the streets of all cities, gathering victims of the plague and trundling them off to Security Bureau isolation institutes.
Against instances of Screamer euthanasia, the Security Bureau and the national governments cooperating with it were almost powerless.
Apparently the new Screamer had injected himself before losing control.
Breaking through, they found the Screamer trussed, face to the sky, in an open cart.
The Screamer alarm had frightened the pigeons into wheeling flight that took them well out over Cockspur Street.
Someone had placed the Screamer, as though in sacrifice to an idol, alongside the forepaws of the massive animal.
A Buenos Aires woman, turning Screamer as she watched the expose on a trivision set in the window of an International Guard post, was ignored by the crowd about her.
In this strange, false perception, each physical feature of the Screamer institute was grotesquely distorted, as though reflected in an incredibly warped mirror.
Hoarse Screamer cries welled all about him, however, becoming a frightening stimulus that drove him onward.
But what he remembered as a delightful amusement park had been replaced by a huge Screamer isolation institute that reared into the night sky and gleamed in the antiseptic brilliance of its own illumination.
It must be somewhat satisfying to know that Screamer is closing in on skid row while your life is looking pretty good.
Sheis giving her Screamer vocabulary a workout, however, muttering under her breath, and into my ear, thanks to the power of cellular technology and a foster father with an increasingly unsavory tendency to eavesdrop.
I say, baiting our little Screamer to reveal herself for what she really is.
So, Twit confessed her Screamer status and Isuzu her real age, sex, and expiration-datedness.
Another older officer slapped the other screamer over and over, cursing under his own breath with each blow.