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How to use screamer in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Screamer means one who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly. Example: “He took a screamer at slip.”

Examples of screamer by meaning

nounA healthy, vigorous animal.

  • I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer.1917, David Crockett, “The Bear Hunt”, in Maurice Garland Fulton, editor, Southern Life in Southern Literature

nounA difficult catch.

  • 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.2010, Adam Gilchrist, True Colours

nounA very hard hit.

  • 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.2006, R. G. Utley, Tim Peeler, Aaron Peeler, Outlaw Ballplayers: interviews and profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League

nounA powerful shot.

  • Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC

nounA very large wave.

  • Catch a screamer, work it hard for as long as you could, then drop back over the shoulder and paddle back out to the line-up.2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser

nounA video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.

  • The Web is also big business; who needs a real job when you can just send Grandma a screamer and—POOF!—there's your inheritance.2008, Nadia Giosia, Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook

nounAn effeminate gay man; a man who is obviously homosexual.

  • Or is he just being a total screamer and gender-fucking his male love object?1992, The Advocate, numbers 607-610, page 315
  • I thought Jeff was a screamer.2001 May 5, cJ, “Studly buff gay guy?”, in alt.tv.survivor (Usenet)

nounA large, attention-getting headline.

  • Hartley's argument usefully reminds us that the spread of celebrity is not just the consequence of an accumulation of publicity handouts, advertisements, chat show interviews, or the shock-horror revelations in the tabloid screamers.2004, Graeme Turner, Understanding Celebrity, page 17

More sentences with screamer

  • He took a screamer at slip.From the entry slip
  • Took a screamer first quarter, then left foot banana through the hey diddle diddle.2018 November 22, Thomas Faunce, Split By Sun: The Tragic History Of The Sustainocene, World Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, page 315. From the entry hey diddle diddle
  • Tells Dougie he′s not a two-pot screamer like him, leaves feeling much better for the little interlude.2011, John Sullivan, Firebug, Australia: Boolarong Press, page 138. From the entry two pot screamer
  • “She is not a coddler, but she is not a screamer.2007 March 18, Michael S. Schmidt, “Female Coach Leads Boys Team Into Final”, in New York Times. From the entry coddler
  • Raymond always called me a two pot screamer.”2006, C. A. Hocking, Damaged Goods, Lulu, page 97. From the entry two pot screamer
  • Their coach, Ray Preston, was a screamer; he yelled at them to cover their man or skate their lanes.1990, John Smolens, Winter by Degrees, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry skate one's lane
  • Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.1986, Geolinguistics, page 19. From the entry agential
  • Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 19. From the entry proscenium
  • I could tell in advance if they were screamers, or leatherettes, or buggers, or great head-givers, or into toys and ticklers – I had it down to an art.2005, Tom Horn, chapter 2, in The Devil and George Bailey, [s.l.]: RSE, published 2011, →ISBN, part III (Fire), page 827. From the entry leatherette

Meaning of screamer

  1. noun One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A healthy, vigorous animal.

Full definition of screamer

Questions about screamer in a sentence

How do you use screamer in a sentence?
Screamer is used as a noun. For example: “He took a screamer at slip.”
What is a short sentence with screamer?
“He took a screamer at slip.”
What does screamer mean?
Screamer means one who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.

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