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crackpot

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crack⋅pot

  [krak-pot] Informal.
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–noun
1. a person who is eccentric, unrealistic, or fanatical.
–adjective
2. eccentric; impractical; fanatical: crackpot ideas.
Origin:
1860–65; from the phrase cracked pot
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crack·pot   (krāk'pŏt')   
n.  An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.
adj.  Foolish; harebrained: a crackpot notion.

[crack(ed) + pot1, skull (obsolete).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
crackpot

  1. n.
    a fake; a person with strange or crazy plans. : Some crackpot called to tell us that the sky is falling in.
  2. mod.
    having to do with crazy things, mainly ideas. : We need a crackpot idea around here just so we'll have something to compare your ideas to.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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