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scream
noun- an extremely ridiculous or funny person or thing US, 1888
Originally used in theatre slang, now simply melodramatic. - Oh, Harry, you’re a scream. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 42, 1957
- It’s a scream. You’d love it. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 124, 1978
- We made a girl want to consider suicide. What a scream. What a jest. — Heathers, 1988
- an appeal against criminal conviction UK
Prison slang. - — David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s, 1998
- a police search UK
- He knew how efficient the Surrey police cordons were once a scream was on. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 19, 1956
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