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screwball
(encz) | screwball,cvok n: Zdeněk Brož |
screwball
(gcide) | screwball \screw"ball\, n.
1. An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.
[PJC]
2. (Baseball) A baseball pitch that curves in the direction
opposite to that of a curve ball.
[PJC] |
screwball
(gcide) | screwball \screw"ball\, adj.
1. Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball
comedy.
[PJC]
2. Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; --
of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts
in Alaska.
[PJC] |
screwball
(wn) | screwball
adj 1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked
ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of
working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball,
softheaded]
n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank,
nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball]
2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the
plate from which it was thrown |
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