crackpots

noun

plural of crackpot
as in eccentrics
a person of odd or whimsical habits everyone is tolerant of the town crackpot, a man who never hurt anyone

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Recent Examples of crackpots Get the angst out of the games, and the crackpots will move on to some other fashionable cause. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026 Artists have always used music to question authority and expose the cracks (and the crackpots) in the American story. — Time, 6 May 2026 The crackpots are the mainstream. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
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  1. eccentrics
  2. nuts
Noun
  • Step inside, though, and you’re transported to a bucolic Britain of rolling hills and village greens, bumbling eccentrics and cute, clever farm animals.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The professionalization worked, but at the expense of the site’s internal culture, Cooke argues, as generous eccentrics were displaced by neurotic lovers of rules.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of eccentrics
Noun
  • In a food processor, grind the nuts as finely as possible along with 1/4 cup/32 g of the flour.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Pulverized into a fine powder and bloomed in butter with the aromatics, the corn nuts bring an earthy sweetness and seriously amp up the corn flavor.
    — Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of nuts

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“Crackpots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crackpots. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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