Meaning of whackjob | Babel Free

Definitions

A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.

colloquial, derogatory

Examples

“"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."”

“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.”

“Then there's another typical whackjob republican, JD "Heartbeat Away" Vance. He's also just the kind that his voters love, dumb, psychotic, and a real user, not to mention the usual racist douchebaggery that always seems to go with being a republican.”

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