screamer
screamer
Definition
screamer (skrēm′ər)
noun
- a person who screams
- ☆ Slang a sensational headline
- Printing, Slang an exclamation point
- any of a primitive family (Anhimidae) of South American birds (order Anseriformes) having long toes and a bill like a chicken's
screamer
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hit: Dunstable opened the scoring within seven minutes with Chris Marsh hitting a screamer into the top corner.
- score: All three were thrown into the action in the 2-1 win away at Wolves with Jermaine Wright scoring a 20-yard screamer on his debut.
- have: Harte had a screamer come back off the angle, with the keeper rooted to the spot.
- send: He picked the ball up on the edge of the area and sent a screamer into the top corner.
- include: Couple of good chances, including the 40 yd screamer early on.
- try: Not many sixteen year olds would dare try a 25-yard screamer against the Champions, Rooney didn't just dare, he buried it.
Preposition: into
- corner: Dunstable opened the scoring within seven minutes with Chris Marsh hitting a screamer into the top corner.
Adjective modifier
- 30-yard: His 30-yard screamer at Old Trafford in the 2004/05 season was a Premiership classic.
- 25-yard: Not many sixteen year olds would dare try a 25-yard screamer against the Champions, Rooney didn't just dare, he buried it.
- absolute: Gerry Harrison too went close with an absolute screamer.
- good: They just have to be good screamers - and the lovely Dark is one of the best.
- 20-yard: All three were thrown into the action in the 2-1 win away at Wolves with Jermaine Wright scoring a 20-yard screamer on his debut.
- right: He is not getting any younger and needs to stay fit and keep practicing those right foot screamers!
Modifies a noun
- inch: Seconds early Neil Tolson had struck a post after veteran Steve Cherry had failed to clear, whilst Gaynor has a screamer inches wide.
Noun used with modifier
- yard: Livingston took the lead after 33 minutes when Fraser McLaren let loose with a 30 yard screamer which flew under David Marshall.
- foot: Tara let the ball run across her body and finished with a left foot screamer from the edge of the box.
- soul: Essentially a storming soul screamer made funky by that furious drumming, this has become one of Eddie's most wanted.
Preposition: from
Browse dictionary entries near screamer
- scream
- screak
- scrawny
- scrawled
- scrawl
- scratchy
- scratchpad
- scratching
- scratchboard
- scratch the surface
- screaming
- screaming meemies
- scree
- screech
- screech owl
- screed
- screen
- screen door
- screen memory
- screen pass
