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screw⋅ball

  [skroo-bawl]
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–noun
1. Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
2. Baseball. a pitched ball that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown.
–adjective
3. Slang. eccentric or whimsically eccentric: What a screwball idea!
Origin:
1865–70; 1935–40 for def. 2; screw + ball 1
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screw·ball   (skrōō'bôl')   
n.  

  1. Baseball A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball.

  2. Slang An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person.

adj.   Slang
Impulsively whimsical; eccentric: That screwball proposal won't work.
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
screwball

  1. n.
    an eccentric person; a clown or a dunce. (Also a rude term of address.) : Tom is such a screwball!
  2. n.
    [in baseball] a (pitched) ball that does not travel in a straight line. : Jim threw another screwball, but somehow the batter hit it.
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

screwball  (n.)
"eccentric person," 1933, U.S. slang, earlier as a type of erratic baseball pitch (1928), from a still earlier name for a type of bowl in cricket (1866), from screw (n.) + ball. Screwball comedy is attested from 1938.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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