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screwball

/ screwball /
noun/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
Type of:
pitch delivery
adjective satellite Sense 2
foolish; totally unsound
"an impractical solution"
"a crazy scheme"
"half-baked ideas"
"a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
Similar:
impractical
Domain:
colloquialism
noun Sense 3
a whimsically eccentric person
Type of:
eccentric eccentric person flake
Semantic Complexity
61%
Sense Count
3
Total Synonyms
1
Total Relationships
6
Times Searched
2
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pitch delivery impractical eccentric eccentric person flake