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ˈnut-case colloq.
[f. nut n.1 (cf. 8 c) + case n.2]
A crazy person; a madman.
1959Punch 21 Oct. 337/2, I couldn't get anyone to talk about it openly. The way they clammed up you'd have thought I was a spy or a nut-case. 1965A. Prior Interrogators iii. 28 He knew the nut-cases, the convicted sexual offenders. 1969Listener 24 Apr. 586/2 You nut⁓case, you ought to be locked up. 1973Boyd & Parkes Dark Number v. 57 They were all shams... She was a nutcase really. |