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}]

n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: {crackpot}, {crank}, {nut},

{nutcase}, {fruitcake}]

2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the

plate from which it was thrown