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crack·pot

 (krăk′pŏt′)
n.
An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
adj.
Foolish; harebrained: a crackpot notion.

[crack(ed) + pot, skull (obsolete).]
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crackpot

(ˈkrækˌpɒt)
n
an eccentric person; crank
adj
(usually prenominal) eccentric; crazy
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crack•pot

(ˈkrækˌpɒt)
n.
1. a person who is eccentric, fanatical, or irrational.
adj.
2. eccentric; fanatical; irrational.
[1860–65]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.crackpot - a whimsically eccentric personcrackpot - a whimsically eccentric person  
eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, flake, geek - a person with an unusual or odd personality
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crackpot

noun
A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:
Informal: crank, loon, loony.
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Translations

crackpot

[ˈkrækpɒt]
A. ADJtonto
B. Nchiflado/a m/f, excéntrico/a m/f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crackpot

[ˈkrækpɒt] n (= person) → tordu(e) m/f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crackpot

(inf)
nSpinner(in) m(f) (inf), → Irre(r) mf
adjverrückt, irre
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crackpot

[ˈkrækˌpɒt] (fam)
1. nimbecille m/f con idee assurde
2. adj (idea) → assurdo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS WEE THINKER ACROSS: 7 Flare-up 9 Bears 10 Batch 11 Endured 12 Ali 13 Patience 16 Crackpot 17 Eve 19 Adjourn 21 Cache 22 Verse 23 Yearned.
Amongst all this angst no-one, the politicians, the environmental experts, the climate professors, the scientists, the genuinely concerned protesters or the ones that hold weird and crackpot beliefs mention a threat far worse than Brexit or climate change - population control.
But she proved such a crackpot with a crush on judge William Hardie, I worried her faceless tapestry of him would turn into a scene from Misery.
Most of the parties, including Labour, have their fair share of crackpot councillors.
Pellegrini says the heart has been ripped from the Stamford Bridge clash by the FA's crackpot scheduling.
Line crackpot with liner and fill with beeswax pellets.
The crackpot order is one of dozens put in handbooks given to Olympics volunteers, the Daily Star reported.
The man who went into the history books by describing Mr Benn and his policies as "crackpot" was Geoffrey Pattie, Conservative MP for Chertsey and Walton.
If Barnett wants reasonable people to respect his 2012 Republican Party, he needs to pull it back from the crackpot fringe and make it into something more decent than a paranoid cave dweller dragging its basest impulses out of a dark crevice and enacting them into law.
The simple answer is yes?' Although the rest of the book is filled with everything from "crackpot predictions" to "scientific scenarios;' readers immediately know that someday, "more than one billion years from now, the Sun will become much brighter and hotter," thus destroying life (and everything else) on planet Earth.
"The United Kingdom is an imperial creation, invented after Scotland had been almost bankrupted by a crackpot attempt to create an empire of its own" - Jeremy Paxman.