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screwball comedies

screwball comedies is the plural of screwball comedy.

Meaning of screwball comedy

Noun

screwball comedy (countable and uncountable, plural screwball comedies)

  1. (uncountable) A genre of motion picture or play where opposites are juxtaposed; characterized by snappy dialog, and a blend of sophistication and slapstick
  2. (countable) A motion picture or play of this genre.

Questions about screwball comedies

What is screwball comedies the plural of?
Screwball comedies is the plural of screwball comedy.

Words near screwball comedies in the dictionary

  1. screwability
  2. screwable
  3. screwage
  4. screwback
  5. screwball
  6. screwball comedies
  7. screwball comedy
  8. screwballer
  9. screwballers
  10. screwballery
  11. screwballish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screwball comedies (page history and authors); screwball comedy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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