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Screamer   /skrˈimər/   Listen
Screamer

noun
1.
Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.  Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screecher, shouter, yeller.
2.
A sensational newspaper headline.
3.
Gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call.
4.
A very hard hit ball.  Synonym: scorcher.



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"Screamer" Quotes from Famous Books



... a term of reproach applied to the industrious farmer, who settled or perched on the resumed portions of a squatter's run, so much to the latter's rage and disgust that he contemptuously likened the farmer to the white-coated, yellow-crested screamer that settles or perches on the trees at the edge of ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... ones up above, and lost one screamer just up the black ditch there. He must have been a four-pounder, and went off, and be hanged to him, with two yards of my collar and a couple of first-rate flies. How on earth he got off I can't tell!" and he went on to unfold the particulars of the ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... 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
... position he was startled by a piercing scream to the rear. He backed out from the tunnel and stood upright once more. He heard the sound of people splashing round in water. The screamer began to jabber like a maniac, punctuating his ravings with shrieks. Another was cursing vehemently, and a third appealing to the saints. Lermontoff quickly knelt down in the watercourse, this time facing the upper cell, and struck his third match. He saw that a steel shield, reminding him of ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... the coast,—despite Captain Joe's warning,—especially on this particular morning, when a light wind was blowing off shore. Plenty of other sloops had delivered stone over their rails to the divers below. Marrows remembered that he had been out to the Ledge himself when the Screamer came up into the wind and crawled slowly up until her forefoot was within a biscuit toss ...
— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith


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