SCREAMER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Screamer

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/skrˈimər/ Listen

Screamer

noun

Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice. Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screecher, shouter, yeller.

A sensational newspaper headline.

Gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call.

A very hard hit ball. Synonym: scorcher.

See images of 'Screamer'

Etymology of 'Screamer'

Related searches:

crested screamer

horned screamer

Share |

"Screamer" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ninth was a thrilling piece of business, wasn't it, Toby? Why, only for our right fielder, Big Bob Jeffries, hitting that screamer straight into the hands of the man playing deep centre instead of lifting it over his head for a homer, we'd have won out. There were two on bases, you remember, with the ...

— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... well try to ride a mad buffalo bull, sir. He's quite a young colt, sir, only 'alf broke—kicks like a windmill, sir, and's got an 'ead like a steam-engine; 'e couldn't 'old 'im in no'ow, sir. I 'ad 'im down to the smith 'tother day, sir, an' says 'e to me, says 'e, 'That's a screamer, that is.' 'Yes,' says I, 'that his a ...

— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Screamer" : newspaper headline, communicator, hitting, waterfowl, crier, striking, headline, water bird, Anhima cornuta, hit, Anhimidae, waterbird, scream, family Anhimidae