screwballer
- n (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs
- s foolish; totally unsound
- Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the ink-stained beauties in Howard Hawks' razor-witted screwballer about a newspaper editor who tries to bring his ex-wife back into the fold .
- At the White House, where he helped welcome visiting Mexican President Jos Lpez Portillo, the beer-fueled screwballer seemed to wish he were high and outside.