Screwball – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
screwball
n.
strange person, eccentric person (Slang)
Screwball
A
screwball is a
baseball pitch that is thrown so as to break in the opposite direction of a
slider or
curveball. Depending on the pitcher's arm angle, the ball may also have a sinking action.
screwball
Noun
1. a whimsically eccentric person
(synonym) crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, nutcase, fruitcake
(hypernym) eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek
2. a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
(hypernym) pitch, delivery
Adjective
1. foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
(synonym) crazy, half-baked, softheaded
(similar) impractical
(classification) colloquialism
screwball
Synonyms and related words:
abnormal, alien, aliene, anomalous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedlamite, bonkers, borderline case, bowl, buggy, bughouse, bugs, case, cast, change of pace, change-up, character, chuck, chunk, crackbrain, crackers, crackpot, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, cuckoo, curve, daffy, dement, demoniac, deviant, deviative, different, ding-a-ling, dippy, divergent, dotty, downcurve, eccentric, energumen, erratic, exceptional, fanatic, fastball, fey, flake, flaky, fling, flip, flipped, forward pass, fou, freak, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, funny, gaga, goofy, harebrain, haywire, heave, hermit, hobo, hurl, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiot, incurve, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, knuckleball, kook, kooky, lateral, lateral pass, lob, lone wolf, loner, loon, loony, loopy, lunatic, madman, maggoty, maniac, maverick, meshuggenah, natural, noncompos, nonconformist, nut, nuts, nutty, odd, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, original, outcurve, outsider, pariah, pass, peculiar, peg, phrenetic, pitch, potty, put, queer, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, quirky, rara avis, raving lunatic, recluse, round the bend, screwballs, screwy, serve, service, shot-put, shy, singular, sinker, slaphappy, slider, sling, solitary, spitball, spitter, strange, strange duck, throw, toss, tramp, twisted, type, unconventional, unnatural, upcurve, wacky, weirdo, whimsical, zealot
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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