screwball has definitions from the fields of baseball,sociology
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[ noun ] (sociology) a whimsically eccentric person

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eccentric

2
[ adjective ] (informal) foolish; totally unsound

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"an impractical solution" "a crazy scheme" "half-baked ideas" "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"

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impractical

3
[ adjective ] foolish; totally unsound

Examples

"an impractical solution" "a crazy scheme" "half-baked ideas" "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"

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colloquialism impractical

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[ noun ] (baseball) a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

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pitch

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