whackjob

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whackjob (plural whackjobs)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
    • 1992, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch:
      "He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does."
    • 2003, Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War:
      One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.
    • 2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie
      Ronald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs.

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