screamer

[ skree-mer ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that screams.

  2. Informal. something or someone causing screams of excitement, laughter, or the like.

  1. Printing Slang. an exclamation point.

  2. Journalism. : Compare scare-head.

  3. Baseball Slang. an extremely hard-hit line drive.

  4. Ornithology. any of several South American birds of the family Anhimidae, having a harsh, trumpeting call.: See also horned screamer.

Origin of screamer

1
First recorded in 1705–15; scream + -er1

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How to use screamer in a sentence

  • Before she reached the crest, she was aware of muffled screams, which sounded as if the screamer was shut up in a trunk.

    Cy Whittaker's Place | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • And he proceeded to smack a perfect screamer down the middle of the course—two hundred and fifty yards if it was an inch.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan

British Dictionary definitions for screamer

screamer

/ (ˈskriːmə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that screams

  2. any goose-like aquatic bird, such as Chauna torquata (crested screamer), of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)

  1. someone or something that raises screams of laughter or astonishment

  2. US and Canadian slang a sensational headline

  3. Australian slang

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