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单词 screwball
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screwball

(skruːbɔːl)
Word forms: plural screwballs
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Screwball comedy is silly and eccentric in an amusing and harmless way.
[informal]
...a remake of a '50s classic screwball comedy.
2. countable noun
If you say that someone is a screwball, you mean that they do strange or crazy things.
[informal, disapproval]

screwball in British English

(ˈskruːˌbɔːl) slang, mainly US and Canadian
noun
1. 
an odd or eccentric person
adjective
2. 
odd; zany; eccentric

screwball in American English

(ˈskruˌbɔl)
US
noun
1.  Baseball
a ball thrown by a right-handed pitcher that curves to the right, or one thrown by a left-handed pitcher that curves to the left
2.  Slang
a person who seems erratic, irrational, unconventional, or unbalanced
adjective
3.  Slang
peculiar; irrational

Examples of 'screwball' in a sentence
screwball

The film has the vitality and verbal fireworks of a classic screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She turns the film from a quietly droll comedy of manners into a screwball farce.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Her character befriends an ageing screenwriter and learns a few lessons in classic Hollywood screwball romances.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Which is why it is so surprising when he does blunder, as with this screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We usually compromise on a screwball comedy or an episode of Poirot.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
So, is this screwball comedy actually funny?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Another modern attempt to make a classic 1930s screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Here was a woman noble enough to act the fool, and smart enough to make screwball comedy feel like a serious art.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It's a latter-day screwball comedy waiting to happen.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The information panel said it was a screwball comedy, and I love a screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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