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screamer

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scream⋅er

  [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.
3. Printing Slang. an exclamation point.
4. Journalism.
a. a sensational headline.
b. banner (def. 7). Compare scarehead.
5. Baseball Slang. an extremely hard-hit line drive.
6. Ornithology. any of several South American birds of the family Anhimidae, having a harsh, trumpeting call.

Origin:
1705–15; scream + -er 1

ban⋅ner

  [ban-er]
–noun
1. the flag of a country, army, troop, etc.
2. an ensign or the like bearing some device, motto, or slogan, as one carried in religious processions, political demonstrations, etc.
3. a flag formerly used as the standard of a sovereign, lord, or knight.
4. a sign painted on cloth and hung over a street, entrance, etc.: Banners at the intersection announced the tennis tournament.
5. anything regarded or displayed as a symbol of principles.
6. Heraldry. a square flag bearing heraldic devices.
7. Also called banner line, line, screamer, streamer. Journalism. a headline extending across the width of a newspaper page, usually across the top of the front page.
8. an open streamer with lettering, towed behind an airplane in flight, for advertising purposes.
–adjective
9. leading or foremost: a banner year for crops.
Origin:
1200–50; ME banere < OF baniere < LL bann(um) (var. of bandum standard < Gmc, cf. Goth bandwa sign; see band 1 ) + OF -iere < L -āria -ary

Related forms:
bannered, adjective
ban⋅ner⋅less, adjective
ban⋅ner⋅like, adjective

Synonyms:
9. notable, record, winning, red-letter, vintage.
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scream·er   (skrē'mər)   
n.  

  1. One that screams, especially one that sings harshly or stridently.

  2. Slang A sensational headline.

  3. Slang One that evokes screams or laughter: The comedian's act is a real screamer.

  4. Slang An exclamation point.

  5. Baseball A hard-hit line drive.

  6. Any of several large aquatic birds of the family Anhimidae, of South America, that have a harsh resonant call.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
screamer

  1. n.
    a newspaper headline. : Did you see the screamer in the paper today? “The King Died.”
  2. n.
    an exclamation point. (Printing.) : Clean up this copy. There are too many screamers. Looks like junior high stuff.
  3. n.
    anything challenging. : What a horrible assignment I got. A classic screamer.
  4. n.
    someone or something very exciting or attention getting. : This guy is a real screamer! Wait'll you meet him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

banner 
c.1230, from O.Fr. baniere, from L.L. bandum "standard," borrowed from a W.Gmc. cognate of Goth. bandwa "a sign" (see band (2)). Of newspaper headlines, from 1913. Banneret (1297) "order of knighthood," was originally in ref. to one who could lead his men into battle under his own banner. Later it meant one who received rank for valiant deeds done in the king's presence in battle.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Screamer
An extension of Common Lisp providing nondeterministic backtracking and constraint programming.
(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/screamer.tar.Z).
[Isn't all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Encyclopedia

screamer

any of three species of South American waterfowl constituting the family Anhimidae (order Anseriformes). The group derives its name from its raucous, far-carrying cry.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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