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screwball
screw·ball S0168500 (skro͞o′bôl′)n.1. Baseball A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball.2. Slang An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person.adj. Slang Impulsively whimsical; eccentric: That screwball proposal won't work.screwball (ˈskruːˌbɔːl) nan odd or eccentric personadjodd; zany; eccentricscrew•ball (ˈskruˌbɔl)
n. 1. Slang. an eccentric or wildly whimsical person; a kook. 2. a pitched baseball that veers toward the side from which it was thrown, counter to the motion of a curve ball. adj. 3. Slang. eccentric or whimsical: screwball ideas. [1925–30, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  screwball - a whimsically eccentric person crackpot, fruitcake, nut case, crank, nuteccentric, eccentric person, oddball, flake, geek - a person with an unusual or odd personality | | 2. | screwball - a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrownpitch, delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter | | Adj. | 1. | screwball - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"half-baked, softheaded, crazycolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechimpractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution" |
screwballnounSlang. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:crackpot, crazy, eccentric, lunatic.Informal: crank, loon, loony.Slang: cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, weirdie, weirdo.adjectiveSlang. Deviating from the customary:bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird.Slang: kooky.British Slang: rum, rummy.Translationsscrewball
screwball1. noun In baseball, a pitched ball that swerves counter to the normal curve of a curveball, that is, in the direction of the side from which it was thrown. He caught the batter off guard with a screwball to strike him out in the final inning.2. noun, slang A goofy, impulsive, zany, or eccentric person. My uncle has always been something of a screwball in the family, never really fitting in with the rest of us. A lot of people thinks she's just a screwball, but I actually think there's some genius in the unique ways she tackles problems.3. adjective, slang Goofy, impulsive, zany, or eccentric. The actor became a household name for his iconic roles in a number of screwball comedies during the 1990s. We don't need another one of your screwball ideas, Tom.screwball1. n. an eccentric person; a clown or a dunce. (Also a rude term of address.) Tom is such a screwball! 2. n. [in baseball] a (pitched) ball that does not travel in a straight line. Jim threw another screwball, but somehow the batter hit it. screwball
Synonyms for screwballnoun a person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazySynonyms- crackpot
- crazy
- eccentric
- lunatic
- crank
- loon
- loony
- cuckoo
- ding-a-ling
- dingbat
- kook
- nut
- weirdie
- weirdo
adj deviating from the customarySynonyms- bizarre
- cranky
- curious
- eccentric
- erratic
- freakish
- idiosyncratic
- odd
- outlandish
- peculiar
- quaint
- queer
- quirky
- singular
- strange
- unnatural
- unusual
- weird
- kooky
- rum
- rummy
Synonyms for screwballnoun a whimsically eccentric personSynonyms- crackpot
- fruitcake
- nut case
- crank
- nut
Related Words- eccentric
- eccentric person
- oddball
- flake
- geek
noun a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrownRelated Wordsadj foolishSynonyms- half-baked
- softheaded
- crazy
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