variants
or nut job
plural nutjobs or nut jobs
informal
: a foolish or eccentric person
Full disclosure: I'm a nutjob when it comes to instant replay in sports. … I would replay the amount of chalk being used on a field if it was thought excessive.—
Ed Graney
Ed Graney
also, sometimes offensive
: someone who is not mentally sound
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Is this guy a nutjob?
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
Too many of the bits share the same arc — a seemingly mild-mannered character turns out to be a nutjob — but the cast is fully committed to each and every meltdown.
—Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
Giving a slap on the wrist to a genuine nutjob requires a lot of political capital in the GOP these days.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
No danger at all of being snowed in with a murderous nutjob lot at the Rookery.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 17 Jan. 2018
Next comes Bobbi, a cheerful 20something actress from California who seems at first charmingly naïve before revealing herself as a serious nutjob.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
The premise seemed to set up a wacky sci-fi comedy about the one sane man among a group of nutjobs.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2017
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
Too many of the bits share the same arc — a seemingly mild-mannered character turns out to be a nutjob — but the cast is fully committed to each and every meltdown.
—Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
Giving a slap on the wrist to a genuine nutjob requires a lot of political capital in the GOP these days.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
No danger at all of being snowed in with a murderous nutjob lot at the Rookery.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 17 Jan. 2018
Next comes Bobbi, a cheerful 20something actress from California who seems at first charmingly naïve before revealing herself as a serious nutjob.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
The premise seemed to set up a wacky sci-fi comedy about the one sane man among a group of nutjobs.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2017
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