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screamer
[ skree-mer ]
noun
- a person or thing that screams.
- Informal. something or someone causing screams of excitement, laughter, or the like.
- Printing Slang. an exclamation point.
- Journalism. Compare scare-head ( def ).
- a sensational headline.
- Baseball Slang. an extremely hard-hit line drive.
- Ornithology. any of several South American birds of the family Anhimidae, having a harsh, trumpeting call. horned screamer ( def ).
screamer
/ ˈskriːmə /
noun
- a person or thing that screams
- any goose-like aquatic bird, such as Chauna torquata ( crested screamer ), of the family Anhimidae of tropical and subtropical South America: order Anseriformes (ducks, geese, etc)
- someone or something that raises screams of laughter or astonishment
- slang.a sensational headline
- slang.
- a person or thing that is excellent of its kind
- See two-pot screamer
Example Sentences
The screamer: “INSIDER: GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN.”
Under intense media pressure, Texas Republican Randy Neugebauer later revealed himself to be the screamer.
"Well, you are a screamer, and no mistake," exclaimed he at length.
It produced one for Windy—a screamer, flying with the speed of a rifle bullet.
It will be as well to stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him a mischief.
Before she reached the crest, she was aware of muffled screams, which sounded as if the screamer was shut up in a trunk.
And he proceeded to smack a perfect screamer down the middle of the course—two hundred and fifty yards if it was an inch.
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