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/skrˈubˌɔl/ Listen

noun

screwball n.

An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.

(Baseball) A baseball pitch that curves in the direction opposite to that of a curve ball.

adjective

screwball adj.

Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball comedy.

Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts in Alaska.

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Etymology of 'Screwball'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Screwball" Quotes from Famous Books

... the life of Riley, but somehow it wasn't enough in this place. We'd get about half-oiled and work up a promising argument about what was wrong with the world. Then, just when we'd got life looking its screwball funniest with our arguments one or the other of us would look out the window and see Joey Pond in his wheelchair, waiting for a one-eyed dog named Charlie to come trotting home across the palmetto flats. He was always there, day or night, ...

— To Remember Charlie By • Roger Dee

... "I thought it was just one more of his screwball ideas! He had his whole Section concentrating on gypsies, for a couple of months. He had a long story to go with it, Gyp! How all the soothsayers and clairvoyants and finders were ...

— Tinker's Dam • Joseph Tinker

... been in this Section for a while, you'll be familiar with every screwball outfit man has ever dreamed up. The Nihilists were a European group, mostly Russian, back in the Nineteenth Century. They believed that by bumping off a few Grand Dukes and a Czar or so they could force the ruling class to grant reforms. Sometimes they were pretty ingenious. Blew up trains, that ...

— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds