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screwball
[ skroo-bawl ]
noun
- Slang. an eccentric or irrational person; a nut:
When the FBI first looked into him, they thought he was a harmless screwball.
- Baseball. a pitched ball that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown, in a trajectory opposite to that of a curve ball:
Has the once popular screwball vanished completely from the major leagues?
adjective
- Slang. eccentric or irrational; nutty:
What a screwball idea!
screwball
/ ˈskruːˌbɔːl /
noun
- an odd or eccentric person
adjective
- odd; zany; eccentric
Word History and Origins
Origin of screwball1
Example Sentences
Better still, she turned the whole performance into a screwball comedy - missing her cues, dropping her cane, and accidentally knocking over her set.
It’s like three classic films in one — screwball comedy, home-invasion thriller and a rueful drama of regret.
Though “Anora” is, at times, filled with a fizzy, screwball energy, it reaches its emotional peak in a simple, quietly vulnerable scene that finds Igor and Anora alone together in a car.
Sean Baker’s screwball comedy about an exotic dancer who impulsively weds a Russian oligarch’s son has the energy of 12 vodka Red Bulls, plus some illegal substances.
But it’s many movies in one — a screwball comedy, a tense reckoning with reality, a story of wealth and power, a tender love story.
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