scream

scream

1. noun, informal An extremely funny or amusing person or thing. My Uncle Fred has always been such a scream. Whenever he comes to visit, we spend the whole time laughing. Everyone said the movie was funny, but I didn't expect it to be such a scream!
2. verb, informal To display or indicate the characteristics of (something) in a very patent, obvious, or unsubtle manner. All his over-the-top romantic gestures just scream "desperate," don't you think? They chose to decorate the new café with all sorts of oddball trinkets that scream "trendy." The jacket just screamed "Aunt Mary" from the moment I laid eyes on it, so I knew I had to get it for you!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scream

1. n. someone or something very funny. (Usually a scream.) The joke Tom told was really a scream.
2. n. ice cream. (Collegiate.) How about a nice big dish of scream?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • be dragged kicking and screaming
  • be no screaming hell
  • drag (someone) kicking and screaming
  • drag someone kicking and screaming
  • give (one) the screaming abdabs
  • give someone the screaming abdabs
  • kicking and screaming
  • no screaming hell
  • piercing scream
  • scream
  • scream (one's) head off
  • scream (something) from the housetop(s)
  • scream (something) from the rooftops
  • scream at
  • scream at (someone or something)
  • scream bloody murder
  • scream bloody/blue murder, to
  • scream blue murder
  • scream down
  • scream for
  • scream for (something)
  • scream like a banshee
  • scream loudest
  • scream out
  • scream the place down
  • scream with
  • scream with (something)
  • scream, shout, etc. your head off
  • screaming drunk
  • screaming fantods
  • screaming-meamies
  • screaming-meemie
  • screaming-meemies
  • so mad (that) (one) could scream
  • so mad I could scream
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Egyptian cafe opens 'scream room' for people to vent feelings
They seem quite happy to torture their child and everyone else on the plane with their bloodcurdling screams, which penetrate even the most effective earplugs, just so they can go shopping or sunbathing.
Stop bleating
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Scream 4 features a combination of newcomers and old cast members, in a continuation of the slasher films.
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Scream 4 reunites Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox.
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We saw the parade, we ate fish and chips at Toad Hall restaurant, Ricky got chased by Captain Hook, we went on Space Mountain again, we laughed, we screamed, we hugged, and as night fell we raced round the near-empty park trying to cram as much into the remaining minutes as we could.
Of mice and men: actor and out bon vivant Alan Cumming kicks off his quarterly travel journal with a joyride through Disneyland Resort Paris
I get the kind with extra hormones so my balls can shrivel up and I'll be able to do the butt rock scream.
30 Years War
She said: "I used to just scream and scream because I was so scared.
'Did nobody hear my screams
Remote fishing fly-in camps, for example, "need to scream out, looking for the big one?"
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NET.COM ADDS IP MULTICAST AND VPN SUPPORT TO SCREAM PLATFORM
Men may scream, but thankfully it is a rare occurrence, denoting the gravest of distress.
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