idiot box
Television.
During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box.
idiot
/ˈɪdiət/
noun 4adj 1
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
blithering, complete, gibbering, prize, right, silly, stupid
You'd have to be a complete idiot to swim in the ocean during a storm.
VERB + IDIOT
be, feel (like), look like
I looked like an idiot trying to open the door with my keys still in my pocket.
PHRASES
make an idiot of yourself
If you wear that costume to the job interview, you'll make an idiot of yourself.
Definitions
noun
1
A person of low general intelligence.
Only an idiot would fail this exam.
After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.
2
A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.
3
A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
Idiots were thought to be peculiarly under the care of the Deity, and it was believed that those who treated them kindly would be blessed.
It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
adj
1
Idiotic, stupid.
noun
1
A proponent of intelligent design.
In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired from a research position at a "prestigious molecular biology laboratory" the very same day a press story appeared exposing this character as being an IDiot.
Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.
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Synonyms
noun — a person of subnormal intelligence
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Idioms & Phrases
idiot mittens
Mittens connected by yarn or string (idiot string (Canadian English)) running through one sleeve, along the back and out at the other sleeve of a coat, to prevent the mittens becoming lost. Generally worn by small children.
Example Bank
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Only an idiot would fail this exam.
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After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.
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He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
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In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired
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Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.
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Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not s
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