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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
/ 藞蝉办谤耻藧藢产蓴藧濒 /
noun
- an odd or eccentric person
adjective
- odd; zany; eccentric
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of screwball1
Example Sentences
They鈥檙e the only actors who鈥檝e internalized that this is screwball stuff, despite the realistic cinematography that throws wet burlap on the nonsense.
"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鈥檚 like three classic films in one 鈥 screwball comedy, home-invasion thriller and a rueful drama of regret.
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