GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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1.       
   screwball, n.
   1. An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.
   
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   2. (Baseball)  A baseball pitch that curves in the direction opposite to that of a curve ball.
   
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2.       
   screwball, adj.
   1. Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, “screwball antics; a screwball comedy”.
   
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   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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