Usually means: Comedic, unpredictable pitch in baseball.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word screwball:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. screwball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. screwball: Merriam-Webster
  3. screwball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. screwball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. screwball: Collins English Dictionary
  6. screwball: Vocabulary.com
  7. Screwball, screwball: Wordnik
  8. screwball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. screwball: Wiktionary
  10. screwball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. screwball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. screwball: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. screwball: Dictionary.com
  14. screwball (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. screwball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Screwball (disambiguation), Screwball (group), Screwball (ice cream), Screwball, The Screwball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. screwball: Rhymezone
  18. screwball: FreeDictionary.org
  19. screwball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. screwball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. screwball: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screwball: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screwball: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. screwball, screwball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. screwball: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See screwballing as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
▸ noun:  (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
▸ adjective:  (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

Similar:
crank, nutcase, crackpot, crazy, softheaded, fruitcake, half-baked, nut, impractical, screwballism, more...

Opposite:
normal, conventional, traditional, typical, ordinary

Types:
screwball comedy, screwball pitch, screwball theory, screwball idea, screwball scheme, screwball notion, more...

Phrases:
screwball comedy, Tex Avery Screwball Classics, like screwball comedies, more...

Adjectives:
real, little, good, permanent, devastating, schizoid, old, complete, great, wicked, classic


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Similar:
crank, nutcase, crackpot, crazy, softheaded, fruitcake, half-baked, nut, impractical, screwballism, more...

Opposite:
normal, conventional, traditional, typical, ordinary

Types:
screwball comedy, screwball pitch, screwball theory, screwball idea, screwball scheme, screwball notion, more...

Phrases:
screwball comedy, Tex Avery Screwball Classics, like screwball comedies, more...

Adjectives:
real, little, good, permanent, devastating, schizoid, old, complete, great, wicked, classic



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