Definition of nutcase
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some nutcase was arrested for sending the threatening letters to the White House
around the condo complex she's known as the nutcase who consistently ignores the rules
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Unfortunately, this is becoming another day at the office prompted by too many guns in the hands of too many nutcases, with laws allowing too many to get guns very easily.
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Watch the pilot again and marvel as Lynch, the master, the nutcase, so loads each frame with preconscious material—tinnital background river-roar,
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First Known Use of nutcase
1959
nutcase Synonyms
Synonyms
bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake, head case, loon, loony, maniac, nut, lunatic, nutter [British slang], psycho, psychopath, sickie, sicko, wacko (also whacko)Related Words
madman, madwoman; abnormal, deviant; manic-depressive, monomaniac, mythomaniac, neurotic, obsessive, obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, psychoneurotic, psychotic, schizo, schizoid, schizophrene, schizophrenic, sociopath; character, codger, crack, crackpot, crank, eccentric, fantastic (also fantastical), flake, kook, oddball, oddity, original, quiz, screwball, tyke (also tike) [chiefly British], weirdo, zany; case, patientNear Antonyms
conformer, conformist, follower, sheepNUTCASE Defined for English Language Learners
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