screwball in English

adjective
1
crazy; absurd.
A Service Pilot in one of my flights north had reported to Operations that I was a crazy, screwball pilot and that he was scared to fly along side me.
noun
1
a pitched ball that moves in a direction opposite to that of a curveball.
You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs .
2
a crazy or eccentric person.
Even scarier is the prospect of this party coming to anything with the screwballs they have in their ranks.
adjective
noun

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1. I didn't get into this business by being an airhead or a screwball.

2. His ten year break from screwball comedy ended with the comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace .

3. Blunder was an elf, brother of Honeythorn Gump's friend Screwball, who for unknown reasons decided to pose as a goblin, masking his identity with a comical, oversized helmet …

4. 3:45 AM PST 3/5/2021 by Alex Ritman FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME 'Bloodsuckers' Julian Radlmaier's screwball 'Marxist Vampire Comedy' takes a line from 'Das Kapital' and turns it into a period romp

5. Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers