Definitions
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- adjective not behaving normally
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Examples
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The antihero narrator is an unconvincing foot-loose screw-loose character who answers to the name Matt Prior.
From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating 2011
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You gotta admit, Stewart does a dead-on impression of that screw-loose Becky.
Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters. 2010
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Since when do we give a national platform to the delusional ranting of a screw-loose extremist with fewer than 50 followers?
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But isn't that one of the screw-loose realities about this country?
RNC Mailer Hits Obama: "It Used To Be Easy To Recognize Patriotism" 2009
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Nancy, at least when it came out, is that the Sex Pistols and their totally messed-up, screw-loose, freak-anarchist bass player Sid - the unlikeliest hero of a rock movie ever, and therefore the ultimate punk anti-hero - were not so overexposed that we couldn't still discover them in the movie.
EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Owen Gleiberman 2010
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The best part about trailers like this is that you don't need to know a lick of Japanese to suss out precisely how screw-loose this movie's gonna be.
"MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader Marc Bernardin 2010
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There are always going to be screw-loose players like Cormier leaping into opponents like Tito Santana, because there always were.
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Unfortunately, President Obama, will have to explain to the ignorant members of his party ... and the radical, screw-loose, left "progressives", why the Afghanistan War is a
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Also appearing in 2012 as a screw-loose radio host with an eye toward the end times, Harrelson and Ben Foster play a pair of Iraq War veterans assigned with delivering death notices to military families in Oren Moverman's buzzed-about drama.
New York Press 2009
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Anyone who believes in "Global Warming" (which has be changed to "Climate Change") has a screw-loose somewhere?
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