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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

screwball

· screw·ball · IPA /ˈskɹuːbɔːl/
01 n. An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.
  1. 1.
    An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.
  2. 2.
    A baseball pitch that curves in the direction opposite to that of a curve ball.(Baseball)
02 adj. Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball comedy.
  1. 1.
    Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball comedy.
  2. 2.
    Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; -- of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts in Alaska.