crackpot

crackpot
1. n. a fake; a person with strange or crazy plans.
□ Some crackpot called to tell us that the sky is falling in.
□ I’m no crackpot! I saw some of the sky floating in the lake. If it had fallen on land, someone might have been killed.
2. mod. having to do with crazy things, mainly ideas.
□ We need a crackpot idea around here just so we’ll have something to compare your ideas to.
□ Why not start a crackpot idea contest?

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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  • crackpot — mentally unbalanced person, 1883, probably from CRACK (Cf. crack) + POT (Cf. pot) in a slang sense of head. Cf. crack brain crazy fellow (late 16c.) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • crackpot — UK [ˈkrækˌpɒt] / US [ˈkrækˌpɑt] adjective informal slightly crazy crackpot ideas Derived word: crackpot UK / US noun countable Word forms crackpot : singular crackpot plural crackpots …   English dictionary

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