Screamer

Quick meaning: Screamer is a noun meaning One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.

Meaning

One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.

More Meanings

1. A healthy, vigorous person.
2. Something exceptionally good.
3. (sports, cricket) A difficult catch.
4. (sports, baseball) A very hard hit.
5. (sports, Australian rules football) A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
6. Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae, endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
7. (obsolete, US, hunting) A healthy, vigorous animal.

Example Sentences

I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer.

He stood almost appalled for a moment, as he said to himself that she would take her up and the girl would be ruined, would force her note and become a screamer.

His screamer into the right field bleachers in the sixth with Scarborough and Viau on base put Hickory out in front 9 to 8 and the lead held for the rest of the game.

But then he came around the wicket again, I slashed at one, and Strauss, at full stretch diving to his left at second slip, took an absolute screamer. It was the catch of the summer, and it happened to me.

Word Forms

• screamers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loudmouth, crested, shouter, shrieker, belter, hollerer.

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