screwball

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screwball - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  screwball \screw"ball\, n.
     1. An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.
        [PJC]
  
     2. (Baseball) A baseball pitch that curves in the direction
        opposite to that of a curve ball.
        [PJC]

  screwball \screw"ball\, adj.
     1. Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball
        comedy.
        [PJC]
  
     2. Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; --
        of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts
        in Alaska.
        [PJC]

screwball - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  screwball
      adj 1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked
             ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of
             working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball,
             softheaded]
      n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank,
           nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball]
      2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the
         plate from which it was thrown

screwball - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  157 Moby Thesaurus words for "screwball":
     abnormal, alien, aliene, anomalous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats,
     batty, beany, bedlamite, bonkers, borderline case, bowl, buggy,
     bughouse, bugs, case, cast, change of pace, change-up, character,
     chuck, chunk, crackbrain, crackers, crackpot, crank, crankish,
     cranky, crotchety, cuckoo, curve, daffy, dement, demoniac, deviant,
     deviative, different, ding-a-ling, dippy, divergent, dotty,
     downcurve, eccentric, energumen, erratic, exceptional, fanatic,
     fastball, fey, flake, flaky, fling, flip, flipped, forward pass,
     fou, freak, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, funny, gaga,
     goofy, harebrain, haywire, heave, hermit, hobo, hurl, idiocratic,
     idiosyncratic, idiot, incurve, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky,
     knuckleball, kook, kooky, lateral, lateral pass, lob, lone wolf,
     loner, loon, loony, loopy, lunatic, madman, maggoty, maniac,
     maverick, meshuggenah, natural, noncompos, nonconformist, nut,
     nuts, nutty, odd, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, off the hinges,
     off the track, off the wall, original, outcurve, outsider, pariah,
     pass, peculiar, peg, phrenetic, pitch, potty, put, queer,
     queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, quirky, rara avis,
     raving lunatic, recluse, round the bend, screwballs, screwy, serve,
     service, shot-put, shy, singular, sinker, slaphappy, slider, sling,
     solitary, spitball, spitter, strange, strange duck, throw, toss,
     tramp, twisted, type, unconventional, unnatural, upcurve, wacky,
     weirdo, whimsical, zealot