screwball
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
screwball (plural screwballs)
- (baseball) 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 pitcher.
- The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
- (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
- I will not listen to this screwball any longer.
Translations[edit]
crazy person
Adjective[edit]
screwball (comparative more screwball, superlative most screwball)
- (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
- 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian[1]:
- Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
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Translations[edit]
crazy, offbeat, bizarre
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