nutjob
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of nutjob
First recorded in 1970–75; nut (in the slang sense “eccentric, crazy person”) + job 1 (in the slang sense “an example of a type”)
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"You act all pure and noble, like you have reasons for what you do, but when I do it, I'm crazy, I'm some manic nutjob," she says.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021
This theory is "supported" by the fact that the month before the assassination, a group of Cubans met with a group of right-wing nutjob Americans.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 26, 2017
When Danny shows up—barefoot and wearing a Baja hoodie, looking like he should be Hacky Sack–ing outside a Phish concert—they reasonably conclude he is not their long lost pal but a nutjob.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
Myself and Benicio were a little quieter, though Stephen Baldwin, who played McManus and was still in his pre-born-again days, was a rampant eccentric, a hilarious nutjob.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2016
It must suck to get to thirty thousand feet and realize that your pilot is a control freak nutjob.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
The grafters, meanwhile, think the grifters are nutjobs.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
One of the more intriguing moves the new season makes is to have the protagonists with outlandish beliefs encounter other true believers and determine over and over again that they are nutjobs.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2017
People like their entertainment served up in shades and they revel in darkness in particular, served up by nutjobs and cheats and everything in between.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2015
Slim pickings compared to Tuesday's parade of nutjobs, but at least Turkey put a decent amount of effort into its cockeyed boy band pirate ditty.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012
Just two nutjobs, called DEVOS, who posted something on their website, De-volution Islam.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2010
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