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🗣️ A loud person ⚾ A hard-hit ball 📰 A shocking headline 😱 A jump scare 🚨 A sudden noise 🦆 A large bird
screamer

screamer

7.8
A short video made to surprise and scare viewers
  • noun
  • /ˈskrimər/
  • Texting
translation icon : vídeo de susto
  • Her latest clip went viral because it included a shocking image and a loud noise, making it a true screamer.

Examples

  • After watching the video online, I realized it was just another screamer designed to scare viewers with loud noises.

  • Hang on to your seat, baby, 'cause this one's a screamer!

    Scary Movie (2000)

  • Blythe, once an angel, once a muse, now only a busty screamer in a teen horror film.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The horror movie featured a sudden jump scare that made the audience scream; it was a real screamer.

Synonyms

jump scare
vsscreamer
1 4.8

A sudden loud sound or image in films and games that makes you jump

is presented as a whole clip built to include that sudden moment

Compounds

crested screamer
  • Specialized
9.9

A large South American bird with a feathery crest that lives in marshes

horned screamer
9.9

A large South American bird with a horn on its forehead and very loud calls

How Startling

screamer
  • Texting
7.8
jump scare
1 4.8

Surface Forms

screamer singular
screamers plural

Morphology

screamer = scream (semi-transparent) = scream + er

Built from 'scream' with metaphorical extension to a media item that causes screaming (a jump-scare clip); the sense is culturally specific.

Etymology

Screamer comes from the verb scream ('to cry out in fear') and the ending -er, so it names things that make people scream. Online, a screamer is a clip made to startle viewers with a sudden loud noise or image.