Hypertext Webster Gateway: "screwball"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
screwball
adj : (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical
solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a
screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: {crazy},
{half-baked}, {softheaded}, {meshuga}, {meshugge}]
n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: {crackpot}, {crank}, {nut},
{nut case}, {nutcase}, {fruitcake}]
2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the
plate from which it was thrown
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