Definition of kook
: one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball
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Examples of kook in a Sentence
a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
Recent Examples of kook from the Web
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Performances range from silly to sillier, with Johnson’s Joseph acting like such a kook that Jolliffe is consistently upstaged.
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The Bakkers are front and center, alongside right-wing kook Joseph Farah of World Net Daily (Cahn’s publisher).
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Better to support a teen-stalking kook, goes the argument of Roy Moore’s supporters, rather than accept the destruction of your way of life in the hands of Doug Jones.
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When the Dredgers were founded in 1999, they were widely regarded as kooks.
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Daily Stormer, a site for and by racist kooks, canceled after disgusting post about Heather Heyer The post includes two photos, one showing the mother of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim and the other a photo of Heyer’s mom.
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Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.
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Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.
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Klansman David Duke, conspiracy kook Lyndon LaRouche, and all-purpose figure of fun James Traficant.
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Origin and Etymology of kook
by shortening & alteration from cuckoo
KOOK Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of kook for English Language Learners
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: a person whose ideas or actions are very strange or foolish
KOOK Defined for Kids
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Definition of kook for Students
: a person who acts in a strange or insane way
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kooky
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