Definitions
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- noun informal A
screwball comedy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs
Etymologies
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Examples
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But there's only one true screwballer in these here parts, and it ain't you.
Red Reporter 2010
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Not remotely believable, and not terribly funny either, the low-key "Homewrecker" is a screwballer sans spark.
Variety.com 2010
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In October 1909, the second-place Cubbies, who’d won 104 times that season but lost the chance to defend their Series crown to Honus Wagner’s Pirates, played a three-gamer at Gunther Park against submarine screwballer Rube Foster and his Leland Giants, as they were then known.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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In October 1909, the second-place Cubbies, who’d won 104 times that season but lost the chance to defend their Series crown to Honus Wagner’s Pirates, played a three-gamer at Gunther Park against submarine screwballer Rube Foster and his Leland Giants, as they were then known.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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In October 1909, the second-place Cubbies, who’d won 104 times that season but lost the chance to defend their Series crown to Honus Wagner’s Pirates, played a three-gamer at Gunther Park against submarine screwballer Rube Foster and his Leland Giants, as they were then known.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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In October 1909, the second-place Cubbies, who’d won 104 times that season but lost the chance to defend their Series crown to Honus Wagner’s Pirates, played a three-gamer at Gunther Park against submarine screwballer Rube Foster and his Leland Giants, as they were then known.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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