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scream noun. [skri:m] LME.
[from the verb.]
A loud high-pitched piercing cry characteristically expressing pain, alarm, fear, anger, etc.; the action of emitting such a cry. LME.
primal scream: see PRIMAL adjective.
Smollett His wife..seeing her husband in these dangerous circumstances, uttered a dreadful scream. C. Isherwood Frau Nowak's shrill scolding rose to a scream. Times As the main body of demonstrators began to move away..screams of 'Fascist pigs' continued.
The shrill cry of certain birds and animals; any loud high-pitched piercing noise likened to a human or animal scream; spec. (Jazz) the sound produced by a high note being played loudly on a wind instrument. LME.
E. de Mauny The scream of the bandsaws on the breaking-down bench. P. Angadi She..heard the chirps of sparrows and the occasional scream of swifts.
A cause of laughter; an irresistibly funny person or situation. Cf. YELL noun 3. colloq. L19.
Jackie Remember the year Sally..convinced us Prince Charles was coming to our school? That was a scream.
The giving of information or evidence, spec. against an accomplice in crime. slang. E20.
An urgent message. slang. E20.