screwball

screw·ball  (skrbôl)

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.

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screwball Slang, chiefly US & Canad

Noun

an odd or eccentric person

Adjective

crazy or eccentric: a screwball comedy

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	screwball - a whimsically eccentric person crackpot, fruitcake, nut case, crank, nut eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, flake, geek - a person with an unusual or odd personality
	2.	screwball - a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown pitch, delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Adj.	1.	screwball - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" half-baked, softheaded, crazy colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"