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crackpot
/ˈkɹæk.pɒt/
noun 2adj 1name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
'irresponsible, unrepresentative
VERB + CRACKPOT
called, listen
CRACKPOT + NOUN
genius, he's, idea, rad
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
1
An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
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.”
2
Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
adj
1
Eccentric or impractical.
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.'
name
1
A small village in Grinton parish, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD9796)
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
Wiktionary02
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
Wiktionary03
No one plots like Gaston / Takes cheap shots like Gaston / Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston
Wiktionary04
a crackpot idea
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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, rad
Wiktionary06
He's a crackpot.
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