Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
- adj. Foolish; harebrained: a crackpot notion.
Wiktionary
- n. An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
- n. Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). See also crackhead.
- adj. Eccentric or impractical
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a whimsically eccentric person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a whimsically eccentric person
Etymologies
- crack(ed) + pot1, skull (obsolete).
Examples
“Referring to Republican Sarah Palin and what he characterizes as the "crackpot parade," he called the situation kind of "scary.”
“Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, another crackpot is preaching the exact opposite message.”
“Re: Calling Tolstoy a crackpot is not only nonsense, it displays moral obtusity.”
“Calling Tolstoy a crackpot is not only nonsense, it displays moral obtusity.”
“The problem is, you can't tell the difference and so assume every crackpot is an Emperor Norton and so why the hell not listen to them, at least it'll be fun!”
“In this case, is someone guilty of that old demon "liberal media bias" if they call a crackpot a crackpot because that would be the pro Obama position?”
John Milewski: Unfair to the Unbalanced: When Fair and Balanced is Not Required
“Of course, being a nutjob or crackpot is all a matter of perspective.”
“Even in America, the only candidate referencing the Constitution is being called a crackpot.”
“But when Schopen discusses the historical Buddha's tax evasion strategies ... well, the word crackpot does come to mind.”
“-I saw another person I'd call a crackpot point at a guy carrying a sign smearing a chief at a local hospital, alleging he molested a boy, and screaming that the sign-holder was a, "Jew hating racist.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crackpot’.
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 100 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound Derogatives
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 237 more...
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Pots
What are all these pots doing?
fuss-pot, toss-pot, hot-pot, piss-pot, despot, bam-pot, crackpot, depot, bridgepot, sexpot, hochepot, monkey-pot and 28 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
bilby Drugs make you crazy. Nov 26, 2008