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单词 crackpot
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crackpot

(krækpɒt)
Word forms: plural crackpots
adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
[informal, disapproval]
...a crackpot millionaire.
...crackpot schemes.
A crackpot is a crackpot person.
She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.

crackpot in British English

(ˈkrækˌpɒt) informal
noun
1. 
an eccentric person; crank
adjective
2. (usually prenominal)
eccentric; crazy

crackpot in American English

(ˈkrækˌpɑt)
noun
1.  Informal
a mentally unbalanced or eccentric person
adjective
2.  Informal
crazy or eccentric

Examples of 'crackpot' in a sentence
crackpot

Because we are not talking about simplistic, crazy, crackpot religious fanatical elements.
Butt, Gerald A Rock and a Hard Place (1994)
Luckily that shouldn't pose much of a problem for the crackpot singer in the future as she has her chequebook poised to buy her own vineyard.
The Sun (2012)
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