as in devils
a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear
an incorrigible madcap who loves drag racing and white-water rafting
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Noun
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Weapons seems to break such cycles, leaving no more devils hiding in basements or upstairs bedrooms playing with dolls or ribbons of hair.—
Richard Newby,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Learning about cowboys while walking through a cemetery is the best preparation apparently!—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Cuckoo’s Nest/Zubie’s parking lot in Costa Mesa became ground zero for clashes between punks and cowboys.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were madmen marching the United States toward nuclear war.—
Isaac Schorr,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Madcaps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madcaps. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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