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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
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noun
- an odd or eccentric person
adjective
- odd; zany; eccentric
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Origin of screwball1
Example Sentences
"The Residence" is an "Upstairs, Downstairs" screwball murder mystery set in the East Wing, the residence wing of the White House, during an Australian state dinner.
The latest show in her Netflix deal, though, portrays it as a blank collection of staircases and parlors not unlike others where all-star ensembles marry screwball comedy with murder.
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.
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