crackpot
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Is crackpot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.Examples: "Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea."; "The Police Commissioner sat studying Frank the Flower for several minutes. Then he called the policeman who had arrested Frank. “You will have to lock this man up,” he said. “But treat him gently. He is a harmless crackpot.”"; "No one plots like Gaston / Takes cheap shots like Gaston / Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston"Synonyms: crank, crazy, kook, live one, nut ball, nutbag, nutbar, nutcaseinformal
2. (informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).Synonyms: crackhead, crack whore, addict, abuser, fiend, slave, wastoidinformal
adj (English)
1. (informal) Eccentric or impractical.Examples: "a crackpot idea"; "While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.'"Synonyms: eccentric, impracticalinformal
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