screamer noun. ['skri:mǝ] E18.
[from SCREAM verb + -ER¹.]
1. A person who or thing which screams; a person prone to scream in alarm etc. E18.
two-pot screamer Austral. slang a person who easily shows the effects of alcohol.

2. Each of three gooselike S. American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, with heavy bodies, small heads, short hooked bills, and spurred wings. L18.
b. = SERIEMA. L18.
c. A swift. E19.

3. a. A person, animal, or thing of exceptional size, attractiveness, etc.; a splendid specimen. slang. E19.
b. A very amusing thing or person; a very frightening story. slang. M19.
c. An exclamation mark. slang. L19.
d. A thing moving (as) with or making a screaming sound; spec. (a) a very powerful shot in a game; (b) a bomb falling with a screaming noise; (c) Jazz a passage featuring loud high notes played on a wind instrument; such a note. slang. L19.
e. An informer; a complainer. slang. E20.
f. In full screamer headline. A large, freq. sensational, newspaper headline. US slang. E20.
g. the screamers, = screaming habdabs s.v. HABDABS. slang. M20.

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