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Screwball   Listen
adjective
screwball  adj.  
1.
Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball comedy.
2.
Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts in Alaska.





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"Screwball" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Screwball" :   eccentric person, fruitcake, softheaded, crackpot, eccentric, crazy, flake, delivery, oddball


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