nutjob
Americannoun
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”)
Example Sentences
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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 the leader dies, the cult either disappears or syncretizes other rituals and becomes a new religion that has little to do with the nutjob who founded it.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 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
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