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whackjob
noun
(
context, colloquial, pejorative
) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
1992:
Elmore Leonard,
Rum Punch
:"He called the guy who owns the gun shop a '<nowiki>'</nowiki> 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 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
.
Etymology:
whacky, whack(y) + jobbie, job(bie)
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